‘What We Leave We Carry’: A ‘collective memoir’ of Britain sees migration as a reflective process
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Those England fans who didn’t travel across the Atlantic to attend the FIFA World Cup earlier in July were glued to screens, raising the heat about “football coming home”, sung by The Lightning Seeds, David Baddiel, and Frank Skinner to commemorate the English team’s 1966 victory, when it was captained by Bobby Moore.
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This is the right time for them to read Colin Grant’s What We Leave We Carry, a collective memoir of Britain that many rarely experience. It opens out a new map of the globe by compiling interviews with writers, thinkers, artists, engineers, and a diverse workforce about what makes Britain today what it is.
Listening to neighbours
This is how Grant presents the quest of the book: “This is an oral history of overlooked and marginalised individuals. It’s a chance to listen to neighbours, voices often drowned out by the shrill anti-immigrant rhetoric that is afforded too much space in our culture”.
The book follows three or more generations of immigrants to understand what it means to be British today. Migration is mapped across emotive, physical, and intellectual geographies. Each chapter is themed to recollect a “view from abroad”, the compulsions of romancers and dreamers, and understanding “The Grip”, which is simply the suitcase every West Indian family possessed....