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'The authors of this paper are all members of the same family ... [their] story is a reflection on the intergenerational continuity and discontinuity of the transcultural experiences of ...[their] Eurasian family, in which the boundaries ofculture, language, social hierarchies and geography are crossed and recrossed,
Within an autobiographical context - her own experiences and those of her Ukrainian family - Longley looks at 'general patterns that may allow us to better understand the special difficulties of those who have crossed over from one culture to another, difficulties that are reflected in their story-telling' (p.109)