You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World
by:
Gayle Forman (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594865510 (1594865515)
Publish date: November 14th 2006
Publisher: Rodale Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I didn't make it pass the 3rd chapter. I did not like it enough to want to read it all the way through.
Gayle Forman and her husband take a year off to travel around the world, visiting some off-the-beaten track places. Throughout the year, Gayle interacts with locals and seeks them out actively, in a way that most tourists don't. Under the strain of travelling, her and her husband's relationship begi...
Socioeconomically, this travelogue is about midway between Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun and Rita Golden Gelman's Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World. It's interesting enough as a travel narrative, though as when I read Mayes, I become more interested in how the authors fina...