Scan barcode
slbeckmann's review against another edition
3.0
Thank you to the University of Nebraska Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book is a series of travel essays that looks at issues that have become ever more prescient in our times, such as national identity, belonging and patriotism in times of migration, shifting borders and refugee crises - and appeal to me personally on a visceral level, as I spent a lot of my younger years searching for answers to questions like these in my own life. Up to about the halfway point of the book, I found it interesting and well-written, but in the second half of the book I got increasingly annoyed at the author's tendency to go off on a tangent and lose a lot of the power of his storytelling because he got lost in the thickets rather than continuing on the path he had forged.
This book is a series of travel essays that looks at issues that have become ever more prescient in our times, such as national identity, belonging and patriotism in times of migration, shifting borders and refugee crises - and appeal to me personally on a visceral level, as I spent a lot of my younger years searching for answers to questions like these in my own life. Up to about the halfway point of the book, I found it interesting and well-written, but in the second half of the book I got increasingly annoyed at the author's tendency to go off on a tangent and lose a lot of the power of his storytelling because he got lost in the thickets rather than continuing on the path he had forged.
More...