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In her essay on Obama and her family, Forna mentions a disparaging term “anywheres,” meant to describe international professionals, “people whose sense of self is not rooted in a single place or readymade local identity.”

“But they don’t go anywheres unless they really have to.”

These gilded ones thought of themselves as “anywheres” in a fragmenting world.

They are the cosmopolitans and the rooted, or as David Goodhart put it in his 2017 book “The Road to Somewhere,” the “somewheres” and the “anywheres.”

Mark Twain’s words sounded fresh to me every evening: “Not a sound anywheres — perfectly still — just like the whole world was asleep, only sometimes the bullfrogs a-cluttering, maybe.”