Try to Get Lost - (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) by Joan Frank (Paperback)

About the Book

"Try to Get Lost is a bold, engaging disquisition on the perils and promises of travel: both cranky and wise, worldly and cultivated, humorous and rueful, its every sentence sparkles. All in all, it is thoroughly entertaining, a sophisticated pleasure."--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale

Book Synopsis

Try to Get Lost is a bold, engaging disquisition on the perils and promises of travel: both cranky and wise, worldly and cultivated, humorous and rueful, its every sentence sparkles. All in all, it is thoroughly entertaining, a sophisticated pleasure.--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale

Review Quotes

Try to Get Lost is superb travel literature. It might also be one of the best memoirs you'll read this year.--Bob Wake, Coffee Spew

A unique, entertaining, thoughtful, and thought-provoking blend of essay-formatted travelogue and observational commentaries, Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place is an extraordinary and highly recommended addition to both community and academic library collections.--Susan Bethany, Midwest Book Review

Frank's rich, imagery-driven prose lends immediacy to her observations. This is a perfect book for readers to take on their travels, even if they're only going as far as the armchair.--Publishers Weekly

Her smart, surprising, irreverent travel essays will give you wanderlust.--People Magazine

Philosophical, sophisticated literary forays that are a pleasure to dwell in.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

These essays soar when the writer as thinker and the writer as traveler--in the sense of a person moving deliberately through the world--most wholly converge.--Richard Scott Larson, Colorado Review

Whether sparkling with enthusiasm or turning downright curmudgeonly, the essays of Try to Get Lost record the ups and downs of travel with wit, insight, and unfailing honesty.--Foreword Reviews

Wry and emotionally powerful.--Diane Peterson, Santa Rosa Press Democrat

About the Author

Joan Frank is the award-winning author of twelve books of literary fiction and essays including Because You Have To: A Writing Life and Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place (UNM Press). She lives with her husband, playwright Bob Duxbury, in the North Bay Area of California.