{"id":12096,"date":"2018-08-23T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=12096"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:15","slug":"missing-the-cues-tales-of-a-newcomers-life-in-canada-a-memoir-by-ias-adjunct-research-professor-annette-isaac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2018\/missing-the-cues-tales-of-a-newcomers-life-in-canada-a-memoir-by-ias-adjunct-research-professor-annette-isaac\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Missing The Cues. Tales of a Newcomer\u2019s Life in Canada. A Memoir&#8221; by IAS Adjunct Research Professor, Annette Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annetteisaac.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annette<em> Isaac<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A memoir about missed messages and subtle hints that elude most newcomers as they try to establish social and career relationships in Canada. Often these missed cues lead to amusing, and in some cases lost opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/JPG-missing_the_cues_cover_art-240x371.jpg\" alt=\"Missing_the_cues_cover_art\" class=\"wp-image-12097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/JPG-missing_the_cues_cover_art-240x371.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/JPG-missing_the_cues_cover_art-160x247.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/JPG-missing_the_cues_cover_art-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/JPG-missing_the_cues_cover_art-400x618.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/JPG-missing_the_cues_cover_art-360x556.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/JPG-missing_the_cues_cover_art-200x309.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/JPG-missing_the_cues_cover_art.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Book signing:&nbsp; Saturday Sept 22, <\/strong>at&nbsp;<strong>Books on Beechwood, <\/strong>35 Beechwood Ave, Ottawa. Corner of Beechwood and St. Laurent Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See more details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annetteisaac.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Isaac A memoir about missed messages and subtle hints that elude most newcomers as they try to establish social and career relationships in Canada. Often these missed cues lead to amusing, and in some cases lost opportunities. Book signing:&nbsp; Saturday Sept 22, at&nbsp;Books on Beechwood, 35 Beechwood Ave, Ottawa. Corner of Beechwood and St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.carleton.ca\/truth\/images\/1971\/person-to-person.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12101,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions\/12101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}