I'm a stranger here myself
notes on returning to America after 20 years away
Readers rate it 3.8 (145 on Hardcover)
304 pages · Released 2000 · Broadway Books
Content report card
I'm a stranger here myself parent’s guide: what’s inside
Violence
Sexual content
LGBTQ+ themes
Scary or mature
Substance use
What it offers
A note for parents
This is an adult humorous essay collection about returning to America after 20 years abroad, not a children's book. It contains occasional mild profanity typical of Bryson's casual voice and adult humor about American culture and consumer quirks. While there is no violence or explicit content, the observations and jokes are pitched at adult readers with sophisticated comedic sensibility. Older teens interested in travel writing and social commentary might enjoy it, but it's not intended for younger readers.
Analyzed by AI · 1 month ago
Read it with your kids?
Rate it and suggest an age to help other parents.
From the publisher
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... 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Shelved under
- Anecdotes
- Social life and customs
- Description and travel
- Large type books
- New York Times reviewed
- Biography & Autobiography
- Nonfiction
- Cuban prose literature
- Cuban literature
- Cuban fiction
- Travel
- Manners and customs
Share this guide
ISBN 9780767903820 · Broadway Books