How much of who we are is where we come from? How do we give our children their cultural inheritance when we are so far removed from it? And is it possible to learn an entire language in a birth prep class? In this collection of essays, Liv Hambrett dives into her own experiences of pregnancy and the early years of motherhood as they played out in a country and language not her own. Poignant, funny and personal, Now I Climb Rocks explores how raising children in another country can make us question our very ideas of belonging and becoming.
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Liv Hambrett. Now I Climb Rocks
Foreword: Ink in the Water
The Right Time
Gemüt and a Bird Museum
Fondue, Angst and an Ambulance
Announcing
Relationships with Places
Geburtsvorbereitungskurs
Birth
Proud
Erosion
Our Years
The Second Child
A Cup of Tea
Clusters of Intensely Coloured Years
The Village
Learning to Crawl
What Do We Grieve?
Guilt and Butterflies
Gardens of Children
Humans as Plants
The Patience of Winter
What If You Don’t Like the Earth?
Established
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Liv Hambrett was born in Sydney and grew up in its beautiful Hills District. She moved to Germany in 2010, planning to stay for a year. After stints in North-Rhine Westphalia’s Münster and Bavaria’s Weiden in der Oberpfalz, she now – happily – lives in Schleswig-Holstein, in Germany’s wonderful north, with her very north German husband and their two children.
