Contact Calumet Editions Publicity Director Blake Cipperly
to receive a review copy
blake@calumeteditions.com
Echoes of a Global Life
By Kathleen Gamble
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Review copies, Interviews, Photos, Video
Publication Date: Summer 2025
Retail Price: $18.99
Kindle Price: $9.99
Genre: Memoir/Biography, Travelogue,
Available at: Amazon, Ingram, Independent Book Stores
Memoir, travelogue, history. Kathleen lives in a world of constant change. Everything is temporary. Moving from city to city she says goodbye to one and starts to explore the next. Never two the same. She survives. She keeps on going. Through trauma, including a plane crash and other scary times, there is also humor. She takes you from Burma to the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Switzerland, and Russia. Her family lives through a coup in Burma, student rioting in Colombia, two coups in Nigeria, and political unrest in Russia. Sometimes things are fabulous. Sometimes they are not. She is a Third Culture Kid, rootless and restless. As an adult she lives in Moscow for nine years during the 1990’s where she witnesses history in the making and a terrifying exit. Life is never boring.
PRAISE for Kathleen Gamble
By turns entertaining and disturbing, hopeful and heartbreaking, Kathleen Gamble’s story is a window into a world most people never experience—where letting go is a way of life, and roots never have time to take hold. Where resilience means reinventing oneself for each new place and time. A magnificent portrait of the timeless search for home.
– A.A.Vogel, author of Call of the Desert: Crossing (Beloved Daughter series)
Kathleen Gamble’s Echoes of a Global Life is an unflinchingly honest account of her experiences as a Third Culture Kid (TCK) or Global Nomad as those of us who have grown-up across the globe call ourselves. “Rootless” and “Restless” is how she describes herself after a life living on several continents, several of which affected her profoundly during her formative years. Despite our best intentions we never quite fit in, but we bring an extraordinary cross-cultural adaptability and resilience that benefits our communities and careers which Ms. Gamble describes eloquently.
– Diana B. Putman, Ph.D., Retired USAID Senior Foreign Service Officer
Life as a global nomad sounds enticing, unless you’re a child who has no say in it. Kathleen Gamble grew up in Burma, Latin America, Nigeria, and in boarding schools. Those experiences enriched her but left her feeling adrift. She followed her husband to Moscow in the chaotic 1990s, an adventure that ended badly. Now on her own in the U.S., she has written this book to make sense of the grief and the bond she shares with other Third Culture Kids.
– Carol Matlack, Former Foreign Correspondent, living in Paris
Echoes of a Global Life is a fascinating first-person account of a unique ex-pat upbringing in a time and in a world that no longer exists. Part memoir, part travel log, part history, Kathleen Gamble shares her adventures and observations as a third culture kid, raised by parents in foreign lands, drawn to living internationally herself, and finally as mother to a son who is also a global nomad. I highly recommend Echoes of a Global Life.
– Professor Tina Norton Buck, Austin, Texas
About the Author: Kathleen was born in Asia to US Expat parents. She has lived in twenty-two cities on five continents and traveled to over forty-five countries. She currently lives in Minnesota where she paints, draws, reads, takes photographs, blogs from time to time, walks in the woods and tries to cook exotic meals that never quite seem to turn out. Oh, and she writes. Her stories have been floating around the Internet since 2011. You can find her and additional info at https://expatalien.blog/.
Blake Cipperly
Publicity Director
blake@calumeteditions.com