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How Iceland Changed the World: Introduction

Self has finished reading the Amanda Lindhout memoir (written with Sara Corbett), A House in the Sky. She decided she would just have to get it over… Read more “How Iceland Changed the World: Introduction”

August 22, 2021August 24, 2021 by anthropologist

World Food Programme, Mogadishu

Since everyone already knows what happens to Amanda and Nigel, the calmness of the prose is creating a very tight knot of tension in self’s stomach. She’s… Read more “World Food Programme, Mogadishu”

August 21, 2021August 23, 2021 by anthropologist

Uneasy in Mogadishu

Airport security use whips to keep order in the Mogadishu Airport, one barely grazing Amanda’s head. Amanda’s traveling with her ex-boyfriend, who left his job as a… Read more “Uneasy in Mogadishu”

August 21, 2021August 23, 2021 by anthropologist

Girl Was Learning, Just Not Fast Enough

I tacked my way from Bangladesh into India by bus and train, arriving in Calcutta sometime in February and finding a room at the Salvation Army guesthouse,… Read more “Girl Was Learning, Just Not Fast Enough”

August 20, 2021August 22, 2021 by anthropologist

“Are you sure you don’t want to just stay at the Sheraton?”

Yes, yes, stay at the Sheraton! self wants to scream at Amanda Lindhout. Because, even though Ayelet Tsabari, in The Art of Leaving, takes a lot of… Read more ““Are you sure you don’t want to just stay at the Sheraton?””

August 19, 2021August 21, 2021 by anthropologist

A Southern City

Self is still reading the Prologue of A House in the Sky, which has been stunning. The detachment of the narrative voice is almost painful, it reads… Read more “A Southern City”

August 17, 2021August 19, 2021 by anthropologist

A HOUSE IN THE SKY, by Amanda Lindhout with Sara Corbett

Surely dear blog readers don’t need self to explain who Amanda Lindhout is. So she’ll just dive right in. The narrative voice is strong. Opening Paragraph (Prologue):… Read more “A HOUSE IN THE SKY, by Amanda Lindhout with Sara Corbett”

August 17, 2021August 19, 2021 by anthropologist
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