Leaving Europe

About the Book

A unique blend of travel narrative and coming-of-age recollections, Leaving Europe traces Monique Hendricks’ thirty-year journey from Switzerland, where she was born, to the United States, with sojourns in England, Germany, Belgium and Iceland along the way. Each chapter follows Monique to a different country through the subjective lens of her experiences. The book also recounts the author’s troubled relationship with her father, from whom she tries to distance herself by moving away. Ten international relocations and one dissolved marriage later, will she find a place to call home?

About the Author

Swiss-born Monique Hendricks has published articles in Country Inns, Options, Woman Abroad, The Expatriate Observer. A former translator and editor, she currently works as an intercultural trainer. Fluent in several languages, she holds a Master’s in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics. She has two sons in college and lives in New Jersey with her Guyanese husband.