Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year
Best Creative Nonfiction Book
of the Year -- Northern
California Book Awards
“EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE I STUMBLE
ACROSS A BOOK SO BEAUTIFULLY
WRITTEN AND SO INFUSED WITH
INTELLIGENCE AND HEART THAT
IT LEAVES AN INDELIBLE MARK ON ME.”
"She is innocence and experience, discoverer and knowing witness. I cannot imagine a better chronicler of this time and place.”
“Rips off the layers of a little-known world, exposing to us its hypnotic beauty--and violence--through her own experience.”
"One of the region’s finest journalists"
