Now I Climb Rocks

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.

Writer and lecturer Liv Hambrett was born in Sydney, Australia and obtained both her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Master of Arts in Writing in the very same city. She now lives in the north German city of Kiel with her very north German husband and their two half-German Kieler Sprotten.