{"product_id":"9781609522063","title":"A Hard Place to Leave : Stories from a Restless Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a  harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.\" —Melissa Febos, The New York Times \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's her\n\u003cbr\u003elushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read.\" —The Washington\n\u003cbr\u003ePost\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVogue's Best Books of 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRestless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and\n\u003cbr\u003e ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories \n\u003cbr\u003ethat span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over \n\u003cbr\u003equicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, \n\u003cbr\u003espinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster\n\u003cbr\u003e in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses\n\u003cbr\u003e us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than \n\u003cbr\u003ewe're up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd \n\u003cbr\u003erattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of \n\u003cbr\u003eher past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search \n\u003cbr\u003efor solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Travelers' Tales, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48844467142891,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":34.77,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781609522063-1.jpg?v=1781693150","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781609522063","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}