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It took me more than 10 years to read this book. I wasn't ready for it then. I was ready now.
The book, published in 2001, is about an American woman whose relationship falters so she takes off to explore the world for 15 years. The start is a bit like Eat Pray Love but this book predates that one and this author is less self centered.
Back when it was gifted to me, reading about travel made me think about how I wasn't traveling, myself, just then. Now that I am not yearning to travel so much mys ...more
The book, published in 2001, is about an American woman whose relationship falters so she takes off to explore the world for 15 years. The start is a bit like Eat Pray Love but this book predates that one and this author is less self centered.
Back when it was gifted to me, reading about travel made me think about how I wasn't traveling, myself, just then. Now that I am not yearning to travel so much mys ...more
Absolutely beautiful. If only I'd the courage and fortitude to do what this woman has. Travel is meant to bring the "new" into one's life; travel is meant to be self-indulgent, and so is writing. If I were to write a memoir of my travels, I imagine I'd get the same "it's so self-centered" everyone else is writing about Rita. It just goes to show how subjective readers can be.
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I enjoyed this travel memoir that was part anthropological observation and part personal narrative of the author's visits to mostly far-flung rural communities.
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