Answer:
A Paradox is a phrase that seems to contradict itself.
Explanation:
In your passage, I have added this so it makes more sense.
“One of the things I get from reading this collection of essays is the tension, the seeming contradiction between the deep connection you feel with your roots, your history, your family and, on the other hand, the need to move out of the house, to, as the title of the book says, find ‘a house of my own.’”
So in your novel, the narrator is saying that he feels that there is a contradiction between the character and his 'deep connection felt with their roots, history, family, and the need to move out of the house.'
In this case, this statement seems to contradict itself because if the character really had a 'deep connection felt with their roots, history, family' they would want to stay with their family, not feel a sense of urgency to move away from them.
