The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, Paperback

Descriere

Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits. Her wanderlust fuels a strong, high-adventure story and, much in the vein of classic travel literature, Jones's picaresque tale of personal evolution informs her own transitions, rites of passage, and understandings of her place as a citizen of the world. With sharp insight and stylish prose, Jones asks: Is there a right or wrong way to travel? The Blind Masseuse concludes that there is, but that it's not always black and white.

Despre autor

Alden Jones

scriitoare americană · n. 1972

Alden Jones este o scriitoare și educatoare americană. Ea este autoarea memoriilor The Wanting Was a Wilderness (2020) și The Blind Masseuse (2013) și a colecției de povestiri Unaccompanied Minors (2014). The Blind Masseuse a fost inclusă pe lista lungă pentru premiul PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogal pentru arta eseului.