Awareness is the first step to healing, to being, and to understanding the true meaning of belonging to oneself.
Anastasia Wasko decides to wake up from her loneliness even if it means treading into inner chaos. In this work that moves beyond traditional memoir, Anastasia chronicles 20 years of travels in and out of the US to find herself. She assumes an observer state, “KiezKucker,” in a second-person perspective. Each chapter is an opportunity to ask “But what would I do?” and “How can I be more authentic here?” She shares how she found layers of media and cultural narratives overlaid on who she was expected to be as opposed to who she really was. She does not shy away from communicating her vulnerability and, at times, her inability to stay grounded in shared reality.
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Praise for KiezKucker
Wasko takes you on a journey across borders, not only traversing arbitrary lines on a map, but also across the borders between the material and spiritual realms, where language shapes who you are, and culture is a construct imposed upon you to blur the true means of things and self.
–Jean-Paul L. Garnier, author and owner of Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree, California