Amesbury’s Dag Scheer Spoke about her Memoir: “When Echoes Speak” on the Morning Show this week
February 16, 2024This Week’s “Morning Show” Featured:
Amesbury’s Dag Scheer Speaks about her Memoir:
“When Echoes Speak”
Dag Scheer, Amesbury resident and author of “When Echoes Speak: a Memoir,” visited the show this week to talk about the distinctive life experiences narrated in her fascinating and beautifully written book, including childhood years spent in a refugee camp after her family fled the Soviet occupation of Latvia.
She described how her family adjusted to American culture after moving to Ohio, and the challenge of negotiating the pull between assimilation and loyalty to Latvian culture.
Dag also talked about what led her in adulthood to seek teaching jobs abroad, first in England and then in Libya, where she met and later married a doctor with the Foreign Service, whose work took them to five continents and eight different countries across the globe.
Scheer described how encountering many different cultures, ranging from Brazilian to Ethiopian, propelled and parallelled inner transformations, and how the shifting perspective of feeling perpetually out of place ultimately helped her define a sense of self.
For information about Scheer and her memoir, visit www.dagscheer.com.
