At Home Anywhere

“At Home Anywhere”, a collection of short stories by Mary Hoffman, helped me to understand cultural diversities. The author combined stories from all sorts’ of life. Being a woman doesn’t bias her to see things only from women’s perspectives. She wrote the stories from both male and female perspectives.
The characters in the stories tried hard to overcome the problems they faced. The characters left their cultures and experienced new cultures. On their journey, they faced different obstacles that they have to understand and tolerate.
The collection contains four interesting stories. The final story is longer than the others, but all the stories connected to each other. The stories have continuous flaw. This helps me to read through the book without stopping. In the third story, the protagonist, Douglas, searches the streets of New York City for something "authentic," which he cannot find in the big stores. On the other hand Bill looked for authentic people. Bill went to grocery store. He learned whether the Arab man is capable of doing terrorist attack by the money he got from the store. What the character faced is what we encounter every day. Americans experienced it especially in the last few decades.
“At Home Anywhere” is a story of characters who are worried in case if they got trouble when they travelled longer than where they have gone so far. They are skeptical if the world might be different from they expected because they didn’t understand the difference between cultures is its beauty. They haven’t recognized that there are also differences between individuals of the same kind.
The book is great for people interested in modern fiction. The stories in “At Home Anywhere” reveal the complexity of the human mind and the impacts of small events in one’s life. The characters can be related to everyday people we see in the world.