Her entry begins:A year ago, I moved overseas from the U.S. to Amsterdam. Since then, travel, home, and the limbo between belonging and foreignness are the tensions I’ve felt. I explore them from every angle on my blog, The Blue Suitcase, and through the lenses of the books I read. As an expatriate airline family, travel is a lifestyle for us. Whenever we leave the places we visit—a warm winter’s weekend in Portugal, a late-summer laze in Croatia, five disquieting days along the Nile—it feels like putting down a book I hope to open again.Among the early praise for Carrier:
With its lacy, square cover, When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler’s Journal of Staying Put (Bloomsbury 2008) is not a memoir I would have picked up if I hadn’t heard about it first. I’m so glad to be reading it. Each night I get lost in Vivian Swift’s reminiscence of her years traveling the globe, alongside her meticulous and thought-provoking observations (and tender drawings and paintings) of...[read on]
Visit Bonnie J. Rough's website and blog, The Blue Suitcase.“Bonnie Rough’s search is a myth for our time, and her book a necessary read for anyone who faces the implacable destinies of inheritance.”
—Honor Moore, author of the National Book Critics Circle Finalist The Bishop’s Daughter
“There are many things to praise in Bonnie Rough’s deeply felt memoir, in her report from the brave new world, but most striking are her compassion and her wisdom as she navigates the harrowing choices, the complex choices that medical technology allows us.”
—Jane Hamilton, author of Laura Rider’s Masterpiece and Oprah’s Book Club selections The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World
Writers Read: Bonnie J. Rough.
--Marshal Zeringue
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