“These pieces move back and forth across the boundary between memoir and fiction. Vivid and gripping, they offer memorable characters and events. One narrative moves deeply into a marital relationship—suggesting a kind of paradigm for the systole and diastole of marriage that I found profoundly moving. And troubling. And satisfying.” —Janet Burstein, Drew University

“One reads Gerber headlong, driven to turn her pages as rapidly as possible, leaping toward resolution.” —Cynthia Ozick

“Handled with subtle humor and disarming honesty, Gerber’s narrative ultimately uncovers a core truth about travel: to surrender to a place, not the version from one’s fantasies but as it really exists, is the only way to experience it. ”—Los Angeles Times