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After residing in Britain for 2 decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back once again to the Usa together with his English wife and four children (he'd read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they'd been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me").  They were welcomed by a brand new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice isn't a luxury product. Delivering the brilliant comic musings which are a Bryson hallmark, I am a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth.  The outcome is just a book filled with hysterical scenes of 1 man's make an effort to reacquaint himself with their own nation, however it can also be a long if occasionally bemused love-letter to the homeland he's returned to after two decades away.