Introduction On his first assignment for a rapacious hedge fund, Gabriel embarks to Bolivia at the end of 2005 to ferret out insider information about the plans of the controversial president-elect. If Gabriel succeeds, he will get a bonus that would make him secure for life. Standing in his way are his headstrong mother, herself [...]
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Travel Writing by Peter Ferry
Reading Group Guide Travel Writing By Peter Ferry Introduction On his way home from work teaching high school English one evening, Pete Ferry witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? Why can’t he stop thinking about Lisa Kim? What begins [...]
The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
“Long before Jhumpa Lahiri . . . long before Monica Ali . . . another novelist was offering us exquisitely detailed portraits of bodies in transit . . . In The Zigzag Way, the connoisseur of displacement takes her sharp eye to Mexico.” — Pico Iyer, Time About the Book In The Zigzag Way, [...]
Kennedy, Frances — American Indian Places
AMERICAN INDIAN PLACES A HISTORICAL GUIDEBOOK by Frances Kennedy “This will become an indispensable guide to those special places that remind us that every place we think we ‘discovered’ was already someone else’s home.” –Ken Burns, filmmaker As the first-ever all-in-one guidebook to Indian sites throughout the United States, AMERICAN INDIAN PLACES (Houghton Mifflin, September [...]
Theroux, Paul — Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
“Brilliant. No one writes with Theroux’s head-on intensity and raptness, and his descriptions made me want to jump on the next plane to Istanbul (and also, of course, to many of the other places he evokes). I particularly loved the spectral motif, the ghosts and shadows and underground presences that flit through the narrative, giving [...]
