This book offers our world so much, and such necessary sustenance and nutrition to help us thrive in the chaos of rapid changes we must embrace and endure. The clear encouragement to face the messy parts of ourselves and our histories and how those have impacted the places we now call home, for however long is wonderfully helpful in a time of narrowing, disastrously narrowing our willingness to be uncomfortable. The road trip as structure provides intriguing access for non-academic readers who can slip into the stream wherever it feels welcoming, and then maybe get tugged along into the questioning whirlpools that might spit us out in completely unfamiliar landscapes of culture or concept. The many voices combining into this exploration, this journey, provide "connections and generosities" that emerge as "small justice moments creating affective bonds." In the hypermasculinized histories of a typically whitewashed "American West" these conversations open more senses than many of us even know we have, and certainly invite nonhierarchical, nonpossessive relationships, "invoking community and dwelling together" across human cultures and life species and processes. This is one to keep handy on your shelf and open often, as antidote and as pathway.

As someone who hosted a road-tripping podcast interviewing feminist activists across the US, I feel like I'm the ideal audience for this book! I really enjoyed the exploration of feminism across the US West and the interwoven essays.