Shelf Pleasure: 6 Books for armchair travelers
If a trip abroad is not in your immediate future, here are a few transporting recommendations.
If a biography or an autobiography tells the story of a life, a memoir tells of the turning points in that life that help to answer the question: How did I become who I am? What I’ve come to realize is that — and this may be due to my youthful attachment to that inveterate gumshoe, Nancy Drew—I’m drawn to literature set in foreign locales. Growing up in a quiet neighborhood where nothing exciting ever happened, I counted on Nancy’s exploits to spark my imagination and brighten my days. Nancy loved to travel; so did I—even vicariously. But if a trip abroad is not in your immediate future, here are a few transporting recommendations.