The Thankless ForeignerA novel that offers a timely and important viewpoint on the immigration experience about the need for resistance to blind assimilation in a host country. In 1968, in search of a better world, a young person flees her country and ends up in Switzerland, the land of hard cheese. There shes told not to talk nonsense, or not to talk cheese, as they say in the local dialect. Home is where you can grumble, but here you have to be grateful. Her new environs