Embassy Kid
By J.K. Amerson Lopez
ISBN: 9781637235973
2025 release from
Westphalia Press
It’s the 1950’s. Robert Amerson, who grew up in the Hidewood section of Eastern South Dakota, is married, living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and their two girl children. He has a good job, but opportunity comes calling. It’s the United States government, specifically the U.S. Information Agency with a two year gig. Thus begins a decades long career and life abroad for the author of this excellent memoir.
The girls were better at speaking Spanish than English in their earliest years. The memoir chronicles the highlights and trials of this family of four from the beginning in 1955 Caracas, with several pauses in assorted embassies, to a last homecoming from Madrid in 1973.
If you can recall your recent American history, you’ll remember that we lived in fraught times and while the author writes beautifully of her family and personal life, her story connects nicely to world events. This is a readable memoir that will illuminate world events in a different and personal way for any reader, and provides thoughtful understanding of our role and influence in global affairs.
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