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.”

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER  BOOK OF THE MONTH

"She is innocence and experience, discoverer and knowing witness. I cannot imagine a better chronicler of this time and place.”

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“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"

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