A review by jonjas
A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

3.0

Must have been a brilliant journey, shame that it isn't conveyed a bit better. It feels like Jenkins just reports facts and makes reaches in terms of metaphors and similes, it just never comes across as natural to me. For such an interesting topic it just feels kinda like reading someone's essay on their summer vacation at points- but when it's good it's really good. The people he meets along the way, the poor black family in the swamps of Louisiana and some of the country folk, are great, and the *SPOILER* dog.. y'know, and his new wife, all that make it worth reading. It's just that it's never as clear or as vivid as it feels like it could have been, which is a shame. 3 stars feels fair- it's a recommendation because it's so darned cool as an idea.