But she ends up tempting fate and going back anyway because she wants to make her relationship work and also because she's curious and the journalist in her hungers for new experiences and stories.Īs I said in my opening paragraph, I really liked the travel parts of the book. She went to India as a young woman and had a bad experience, and then, literally and metaphorically flipped it off, vowing never to return. As a journalist herself who was fond of travel and backpacking, she had mixed feelings. Sarah Macdonald is an Australian who ended up going to India because of her boyfriend's work (I think he's an Australian news reporter). (I would probably vote for ignorant- in the beginning of the book, she talks about her "dreadlocks" phrase in college.) But on the other hand, this memoir is very dated (published in 2002) with some very outmoded views towards people of color and she takes a decidedly Western slant when talking about said people and culture that oscillates wildly between ignorant and insensitive. On the one hand, it's a memoir about a place I am unlikely to go and it was interesting to see a journalist's take on the people and the culture, since if I can't travel somewhere, it's fun to enjoy it vicariously. I have very mixed feelings about HOLY COW.
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