There Is a Rule in New Orleans
Can a transplant ever really be ‘from’ the city?
White ibis birds at Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Where am I from?
I’m from New York City.
But I never felt more like a New Yorker than during the year I moved to New Orleans.
Every place has its own distinct half-life: the amount of time you must reside there before you can credibly identify as a local.
A resident of Maine whose grandparents were not themselves born in Maine is “from away” (and if those grandparents lived on the coast, it’s a debate).
Nathaniel Rich’s fourth novel, Cloudthief , is published this month.
He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine , Harper’s , and the New York Review of Books , and he teaches at Tulane University.
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