Ritivoi's insights in Yesterday's Self are brilliant, groundbreaking, and profoundly correct. I am especially impressed with her literally beautiful and beautifully literary use of personal stories. One doesn't usually find such sensitivity or rich description in discussions of identity, at least not in philosophical discussions. -- Thomas E. Wren, Loyola University, Chicago In this interesting and well-written book, Ritivoi makes a significant contribution to our understanding of immigration, memory, and nostalgia. Sociology Yesterday's Self offers a lively and profound investigation of a slippery condition that is nonetheless ubiquitous in this age of mobility and displacement. It is a great pleasure to read a scholarly inquiry that is readable, lively, and fresh. Ritivoi has brought into English, with scholarly brio, the Romanian word 'dor,' and given it an amplitude that it never had beyond its balkan world. -- Andrei Codrescu, NPR columnist and editor of the online literary journal Exquisite Corpse
