UPTON, Mass. – June 7, 2015 – Local author Diane Giombetti Clue published her first book on June 3, 2015. A Broad Abroad: Surviving (and Loving) Your Junior Year Abroad on Foreign Soil combines a narrative of the author’s junior year abroad (JYA) experience in England with practical advice and tips that will help college students make the most of their own JYA. The book is currently available in paperback through Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Broad-Abroad-Surviving-Loving-Foreign/dp/0692402144/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
Giombetti Clue explained that she wrote A Broad Abroad to address a specific need in the travel literature marketplace. “I have long wished to find an honest, yet practical, memoir that is specifically about the JYA experience,” she said. “It didn’t seem to exist, so I decided to write the kind of book I wish had been available when I studied in England.”
The narrative portion of A Broad Abroad draws heavily on the detailed journals that Giombetti Clue kept during her JYA at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Because the author studied abroad in the mid 1980s, the book also provides readers with a look at a much quieter and less electronically based lifestyle. Throughout the personal narrative are sidebars that offer a British-English/American-English translator. The book also contains special features in between the narrative chapters that focus on topics central to the JYA experience, including subjects such as preparing for the JYA before leaving the U.S., dealing with culture shock, combating homesickness, immersing oneself in the host country’s culture, traveling on a student budget, and confronting repatriation anxiety upon return to the U.S.
In September, Giombetti Clue will be traveling to Canterbury to read from A Broad Abroad as part of the 50th anniversary festival at the University of Kent. She is scheduled to participate in an open mic afternoon that will take place at the university’s campus, and in an event at Canterbury Cathedral featuring several of the university’s alumni who are published authors. During the festival weekend, Giombetti Clue will also give a reading from A Broad Abroad at a special reception hosted by the University of Kent in America (UKA), which is the university’s organization for U.S.-based alumni and students who spent their JYA in Canterbury. Giombetti Clue is the chair of UKA’s Boston chapter, which was launched in September 2014.
For more information contact: Diane Giombetti Clue at 508-667-4265 or dgiombetti@charter.net
About Diane Giombetti Clue
Diane Giombetti Clue is a freelance writer and public speaker who is passionate about international travel and study. Her journeys have taken her to places including the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Andorra, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Croatia, French Polynesia, and Greece. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.
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