Full name: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

Also published as: Notes From A Big Country: Journey into the American Dream

Author: Bill Bryson Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Humor, Essays, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780767903820 9781784161842 076790382X

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away. Similar books: The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson I Left My Tent in San Francisco by Emma Kennedy Queen of the Road by Doreen Orion Ciao, America! by Beppe Severgnini Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry America Unchained by Dave Gorman A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson An Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkington Travels with Alice by Calvin Trillin Queenan Country by Joe Queenan Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling Calypso by David Sedaris Carsick by John Waters Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs It Gets Worse by Shane Dawson Shrill by Lindy West I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron