Worlds Apart: A Memoir of Uncertain Belonging
“A compelling read.” Frank Sasinowski, M.S., M.P.H., J.D., recipient of 2021 Pontifical Hero Award for Inspiration.
“Brilliant and insightful.” Tom Eberle, Ph.D., former Director of the Living School, Center for Action and Contemplation.
Sarah Lutterodt’s inspirational memoir, Worlds Apart, traces her life from a sheltered post-war childhood in southern England through transformative years teaching university in Ghana to the hustle and bustle of the American business world and her return to Ghana in retirement.
The memoir is a testament to the power of love and perseverance as, with her Ghanaian husband, Lutterodt raises a biracial family in racially traumatized America, while forging a career in a male-dominated industry. In telling her story, she delves deeply into the complexities of identity, belonging, and the quest for understanding across cultures and continents.
Proceeds from the sale of Worlds Apart will be used to benefit development projects at the Nii Sowa Din Memorial cluster of schools in Ashaley Botwe, Ghana.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarah Lutterodt
Sarah Lutterodt was born and educated in England, gaining a BA degree in physics from the University of Oxford, an M.Phil. in nuclear physics from the University of London and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Birmingham. She has spent most of her adult life outside England, working for two years at the University of Lovanium in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and subsequently at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. It was there that she met her husband, Clement, a Ghanaian mathematician with whom she has three children. In 1980, the family moved to the United States, where Lutterodt worked as a technical training consultant for General Physics Corporation before starting her own business, Quality Training Systems, in 1997. Now in retirement, she and Clement divide their time between their homes in Columbia, Maryland, and Accra, Ghana
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