![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the conceit of embracing the unknown is not enough to impart thematic unity to these essays one piece ties together the author's love affair with a reclusive man, desert fauna, Hitchcock's VertigoĪnd the blind seer Tiresias in ways that will indeed leave readers feeling lost. She interlaces personal and familial histories of disorientation and reinvention, writing of her Russian Jewish forebears' arrival in the New World, her experiences driving around the American west and listening to country music, and her youthful immersion in the punk rock demimonde. , allows the subject of getting lost to lead her where it will, from early American captivity narratives to the avant-garde artist Yves Klein. Cultural historian Solnit, an NBCC award winner for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West The virtues of being open to new and transformative experiences are rhapsodized but not really illuminated in this discursive and somewhat gauzy set of linked essays. ![]()
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