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AUTHOR: Alden Jones
PUBLISHER: University of Wisconsin Press
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: October 22, 2013
PAGES: 192
ISBN:
9780299295707
AWARDS: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Nominee for Longlist (2014), Bisexual Book Awards for Biography/Memoir (2013)

The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia

by Alden Jones

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.

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Bisexual Book Awards for Biography/Memoir (2013)

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