The theme of the stranger in a strange land runs through a lot of my writing, and I am drawn to works that treat it. In The Last of Her Kind, a young woman from a working class background narrates her experience as an undergraduate at one of the Seven Sisters colleges during the Vietnam protest era. She takes a poetry writing class where her work is savagely and mercilessly denigrated:
. . . the class helped set things in motion, coloring my attitude toward all my other classes, toward being in college in general, intensifying my fear of not belonging, of not speaking the same language as everyone else — a language I might be capable of learning enough to get by, but in which I would never be fluent.
        — Georgie George, the narrator of The Last of Her Kind, by Sigrid Nunez