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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Motherland, fatherland, whateverland
    sub title: searching for home
  name:
    name part: Smalhout, Erik
    name part: 1926-2008
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Berry, Erika
    role:
      role term: editor
  type of resource: text
  genre: Autobiography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 251 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Erik Smalhout was born a child of privilege in the Netherlands East Indies. Smalhout's father sent his unruly son to a boarding school in Australia, just months before the Japanese seized the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942. While young Smalhout adapted to life in rural Australia, his sister and father back home were placed in Japanese prison camps, an experience that proved fateful for his father and changed his sister's life forever. Serendipity followed him through induction in the WWII Dutch military, his postwar service on merchant ships circling the globe, and eventually to the most southern place on earth: the Mississippi Delta. Smalhout spent the rest of his life adapting to challenging circumstances time after time: first as a progressive Dutchman in the American South, then as an IRS agent in the nation's second-largest financial center, and finally as a man who, due to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, often could not identify himself. Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland: Searching for Home is Smalhout's memoir, edited by his granddaughter, Erika Berry, and supported with pictures and documents that he saved throughout his lifetime. Smalhout's story reminds readers that place is secondary to experience and that no matter where we are or what fortunate or unfortunate circumstances placed us there, an eternal curiosity for humanity will help us find a place in the world.
  note: Erik Smalhout ; edited by Erika Berry.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Smalhout, Erik
      name part: 1926-2008
  subject:
    topic: Dutch
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Néerlandais
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Dutch
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: E184.D9 S63 2022
  classification: 973.92092
  identifier: 9781496839206
  identifier: 149683920X
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 211103
    record change date: 20250318222558.1
    record identifier: in00004583428
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng