The Local Immigrant Tan Jonty
The Local Immigrant Tan Jonty I never knew I was misplaced until I realised what it felt like to be home. There are many things that make him feel at home. Jonty Tan is a Third Culture Kid who found…
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The Local Immigrant Tan Jonty
I never knew I was misplaced until I realised what it felt like to be home. There are many things that make him feel at home. Jonty Tan is a Third Culture Kid who found home in his country of birth, Singapore.
In 2014, on holiday in Singapore from the UK, his homing beacon was activated and what began was a six-year journey of understanding why he spent his life feeling misplaced. The humid tropical air that he feels on his face after landing at Singapore's award-winning Changi Airport, the taste of Char Kway Teow, the sense of community in a hawker centre, but after living in the UK since he was just 2 years old, why do these things continue to resonate for him? In this personal, anecdotal and insightful autobiography, Jonty describes the twists and turns of this six-year wait before returning home, the pain of lost opportunities and the pressures of arriving in Singapore during the
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