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From the awardwinning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel belonging and home Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another My sense of place is in the moving Glancy writes For her the road is homeits own satisfying destination But the road also makes demands on us asking us to be willing to explore the incomprehensible parts of the landscapes we inhabit and pass throughas well as to ultimately let them blur as they go by This Glancy says is home

Glancy teases out the lessons of the road that are never easy to define grappling with her own childhoods puzzle pieces of her Cherokee heritage and a fraught but still compelling vision of Christianity As she clocks an inordinate amount of driving as she experiments with literary forms she looks to what the land has held for centuries before the roads were ever there

This ultimately is a book about land tradition religion questions and the puzzle pieces none of us can put together quite right Its a book about peripheral vision conflicting narratives and a longing for travel