As soon as he arrived in Europe, homesickness set in.
Audiences will find poignancy as well as humor in the homesickness that looms rather largely between the lines.
While Skype and Facebook obviously help in combatting homesickness, for those hoping to sharpen their language skills, the easy access to English-speaking media can hinder immersion.
There were policy debates: Adolf Strauss, in "Heimweh" ("Homesickness"), argued that "we need a land of our own/to make an end of distress and pain," while Carlo Sigmund Taube, in "Ein Jüdisches Kind" ("A Jewish Child"), wrote that "as long as you are not filled by the word 'homeland,' your heart will stay unfettered".
But, even though I have lived outside the north for almost as long as I lived in it, homesickness continues to appear at unexpected intervals, and I miss things I didn't know I missed because I forgot they were normal in the first place.
When in a homesickness funk, it can be too easy to blame external factors or other people, Stein says, and that mentality is detrimental.
Seven weeks into our year of living in Europe, homesickness hit and hit hard.
Social isolation was documented in 20% of dropout student files and homesickness in 20%.
In the end, homesickness was the spur she needed, and in 1963 she published a well-received first novel, Run River, about a crime of passion and an old California ranch.
Eric Carle was born in New York, but homesickness prompted his family to return to their native Stuttgart in 1935.
