THE GLOBAL SOUL
In the 8 years since its release, our modern world has spun faster and faster, flinging people into expatriate lives that become a series of two year contract stints in Global Soul hubs like Dubai, Singapore, Sao Paulo, New York, and London. How do you recognize a Global Soul? Ask them where they are from, and they pause because they have more than one correct answer to that question (Iyer himself could answer India, London, California or Japan) Who do Global Souls owe their allegiance to? That’s another difficult question; they frequently don’t vote because they don’t live in the country where they are eligible, they probably have more loyalty to their airline or alliance of choice's frequent flyer program or American Express credit card. With globalization a force that is definitely with us, Iyer’s book stands alone in it’s quest to pull back the cover on this engine of the world’s economy to discover what cities like Atlanta and Toronto have in common. Buy the book here. 
Pico Iyer’s 2001 book, The Global Soul is an exploration of today’s citizen of the world, where ‘foreign’ is a four letter word, where planes become like taxis and passports are mere drivers licenses as these nomads glide between financial cities and burgeoning metropolises.
