These readings deal with "culture shock" and other difficulties associated with living overseas and entering into your home culture afterwards. Many of these books are available in the Watzek Library, or in the Overseas Office library.

Keppets, Dawn. Back in the USA: Reflecting on Your Study Abroad Experience. NAFSA: Association for International Educators, 1995.

Kohls, L. Robert. Survival Kit for Overseas Living: For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1996.

Lewis, Tom J. and Jungman, Robert E., eds. On Being Foreign: Culture Shock in Short Fiction. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1986. (In particular: "You have left your Lotus Pods on the Bus," by Paul Bowles, and "Saree of the Gods," by G.S. Sharat Chandras.

Storti, Craig. Cross-Cultural Dialogues. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1994.

Storti, Craig. The Art of Crossing Cultures. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1990.

Weaver, Gary R. "Understanding and Coping with Cross-Cultural Adjustment Stress," in Paige, R. Michael, ed. Cross-Cultural Orientation. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. Other articles in this book are helpful on culture shock and reentry issues.