If you are interested in reading about women traveling the world and living overseas, but want to skip the spiritual elements presented in Eat, Pray, Love (One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia), try these books. The archived blog posts give more information.
Reading Lolita in Tehran (A Memoir in Books) by Azar Nafisi
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez (archived blog post)
A Year in the World (Journeys of a Passionate Traveler) by Francis Mayes (archived blog post)
Tales of a Female Nomad (Living at Large in the World) and Female Nomad and Friends (Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World) both by Rita Golden Gelman (archived blog post)
From this list, Tales of a Female Nomad is a favorite. If you want to read more about living in Indonesia, start with that title. A Year in the World did not hold my attention; I don’t think I finished it.
Do you like to read travelogues by women living overseas? What book would you add to this list?
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I have Tales of a Female Nomad and agree that it’s excellent. For a long time, I collected travelogues (that focused on Africa). Now they sit in boxes, unloved and unappreciated — one day, perhaps, my girls will enjoy them!
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Awesome!
My favorite — especially being an old married mom, not a divorced woman who needs to find herself — is One Year Off: Leaving it All Behind for a Round the World Journey with Our Children. It’s by David Elliot Cohen. Sadly, it looks like it’s out of print, but I had originally gotten it at the library.
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Thanks, Jen. I’ll be looking for that one.
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Great list! I will check these out. On a separate note, have you read “My Sister’s Keeper?” I’d love to hear your perspective on it. I know a lot of people don’t like the ending. But as far as stories go, I thought it was well-conceived. And it would spur an excellent discussion of how every decision point in the book would be handled by a Christ-follower.
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No, I’ve not read My Sister’s Keeper. I’ll add it to my library list, thanks.