STILL BECOMING Media and Publishing Kit By Tarak Lucas Bach Hamba tarak@ozlunara.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE BOOK Still Becoming is a reflective memoir about identity, belonging, reinvention, and what it means to remain human in a rapidly changing world. Born in France with roots in Tunisia, the author writes about what it means to live in translation. Not just linguistically, but culturally, emotionally, existentially. Through stories of migration, cultural crossings, uncertainty, ambition, and self-discovery, the book explores the questions many of us carry quietly: Where do I belong? Who am I becoming? And how do we find meaning amid constant change? Written in a prose that is both intimate and precise, Still Becoming draws on the tradition of the European literary memoir while remaining deeply personal. The writing does not seek to resolve what cannot be resolved. It seeks instead to sit with it, to look at it clearly, and to find in that clarity something resembling freedom. The book speaks to anyone who has ever felt caught between worlds: between the person they were raised to be and the person they are still discovering. Between a culture left behind and one never quite entered. Between the life that was built and the life that was imagined. It is a book about becoming, in all the ways that process is unfinished and ongoing. Themes: identity, belonging, reinvention, migration, cultural transition, self-discovery, ambition, personal growth. Tone: reflective memoir. Not self-help. Not business. Not productivity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOK OVERVIEW Title: Still Becoming Subtitle: A Life Between Worlds Author: Tarak Lucas Bach Hamba Languages: English and French (complete manuscript in both) Manuscript: Complete Genre: Memoir / Narrative Nonfiction ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AUTHOR BIO (SHORT) Tarak Lucas Bach Hamba is a writer, founder and international speaker, born in France to a Tunisian father and a French mother. His work explores identity, belonging, cultural inheritance, and the experience of living between worlds. Having lived and worked across multiple countries and cultures, he writes about the questions that emerge when home, language, and self are never confined to a single place. Still Becoming is his first book. He writes in both English and French. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AUTHOR BIO (EXTENDED) Tarak Lucas Bach Hamba was born in France into a family shaped by multiple cultures, languages, and histories. With a Tunisian father and a French mother, questions of identity and belonging emerged early and remained a constant thread throughout his life. Growing up between different cultural influences led him to explore what it means to belong, how identity evolves over time, and how people make sense of themselves when they live between worlds rather than fully inside a single one. Over the years, he has lived, worked, and spoken internationally, gaining exposure to different cultures, perspectives, and ways of understanding success, community, ambition, and selfhood. Those experiences deepened his interest in the questions that would eventually become the foundation of his writing. Throughout that journey, he continued writing privately, filling journals and notebooks with reflections on identity, migration, memory, belonging, and personal transformation. Over time, those fragments evolved into a larger question: how do we understand ourselves when our lives span multiple places, languages, and versions of who we have been? That question became the foundation of Still Becoming, a memoir exploring the lifelong process of becoming who we are. Written in both English and French, the project reflects not only a bilingual practice but also the experience of navigating life across cultural boundaries. Still Becoming is his first book and represents the culmination of years of reflection, writing, and exploration into the spaces between identity, belonging, and reinvention. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AUTHOR'S NOTE I wrote this book because I kept meeting people who were living the same question I was living: not what do I want, but who am I, beneath all of it. I have spent most of my life moving. Between countries and cultures, between languages and identities, between the version of myself that others needed and the version I was still trying to find. For a long time I believed that movement was the problem. That if I could only settle somewhere, in a place or a career or a version of myself, the restlessness would stop. It did not stop. But writing this book helped me understand why. We do not finish becoming. The process is not a phase of life. It is the texture of life itself. And the moment we think we have arrived, we are probably most lost. Success, I found, did not answer the questions I had about identity. It accelerated them. Building something visible to the world while remaining invisible to yourself is a particular kind of loneliness. This book is an attempt to write honestly about that experience, for anyone who has shared it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY THEMES IDENTITY Identity in this book is not a fixed thing to be discovered but a process to be lived. The author writes about the specific difficulty of knowing who you are when you have been shaped by more than one culture, when the languages you think in carry different versions of yourself. BELONGING Belonging is explored not as a place you find but as a feeling you construct, sometimes imperfectly, across different languages, cities, and relationships. The book asks what it costs to belong in a place that was not built with you in mind, and what it means to finally stop asking permission to exist. REINVENTION The book returns repeatedly to the act of beginning again. Not as a triumph, but as a necessity. The author does not romanticise reinvention. He writes about the exhaustion of it, the grief of leaving versions of yourself behind, and the strange freedom that sometimes follows. MIGRATION Migration here is not only geographic. It is psychological, cultural, linguistic. The author writes about what is lost in crossing and what is quietly gained. About the particular consciousness that comes from living in more than one world simultaneously, and never fully belonging to either. AMBITION Ambition in this memoir is examined with honesty rather than celebration. The author writes about pursuing goals that turned out to be more complicated than they first appeared, and about what it costs to keep moving toward a version of yourself that keeps changing. Ambition, he finds, can become its own kind of displacement. GROWTH Growth is treated in this book not as an outcome to achieve but as something that happens slowly, often against your will, and usually in the quiet moments after failure, loss, or disorientation. Real growth, in this account, looks nothing like the version the world rewards. CULTURAL TRANSITION The book documents what it is like to move between cultural codes, to hold multiple ways of being at once, and to belong nowhere completely. It is also about the unexpected gift of that position: a view of human experience that people rooted in a single culture rarely develop. SELF-DISCOVERY Self-discovery in this book is not a journey with a destination. It is an ongoing negotiation between who you were, who you became, and who you are still in the process of finding. The author resists the idea of the completed self. The book ends, but the becoming does not. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUGGESTED INTERVIEW TOPICS 1. Building a life between cultures What does it actually mean to live between cultures, and what does that experience reveal about identity that a single-culture life cannot? 2. Reinvention and identity How many times can a person reinvent themselves before they lose the thread of who they are? What survives the reinventions? 3. Immigration and belonging The difference between arriving somewhere and belonging there, and whether that gap ever fully closes. 4. Ambition versus fulfillment What happens when you achieve what you set out to achieve and discover that the question of who you are has only become more pressing? 5. Why people never stop becoming The idea that the self is not a destination but a direction, and what that means for how we live and how we understand ourselves. 6. Personal transformation What transformation actually costs, and what it gives back. The unglamorous reality of changing, and the slowness of it. 7. Writing memoir in a changing world Writing honestly about a life still being lived, and choosing to share it before the story has reached any conclusion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUGGESTED PULL QUOTES "We spend years becoming useful. Then a lifetime trying to become ourselves. The first is rewarded by the world. The second, only by the self." "I learned early that to be from many places is to be, for a long time, from nowhere at all. Until one day you understand that the in-between was the place." "There is a particular loneliness reserved for people who have built things. It arrives quietly, the morning after the launch, when the noise stops and you are still here." "You can become very visible to the world while still remaining invisible to yourself." "Some places remain inside us long after we leave them." "The moment we think we have arrived, we are probably most lost." "Success did not answer the questions I had about identity. It accelerated them." "We do not finish becoming. The process is not a phase of life. It is the texture of life itself." "To belong nowhere completely is also to see everywhere more clearly." "I kept writing because writing was the only way I knew to make sense of what I was in the middle of becoming." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PUBLISHING INFORMATION Languages: English and French (complete manuscript in both) Status: Complete Currently open to: Traditional publishing partnerships Literary agent representation in any territory Translation opportunities and international publishing Rights discussions across languages and markets Podcast and media interviews Speaking engagements and literary events ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONTACT For publishing inquiries, media opportunities, podcast invitations, speaking engagements, or literary representation discussions: tarak@ozlunara.com Website: https://still-becoming.ozlunara.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Still Becoming is not a book about having arrived. It is a book about becoming. 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