All Over the Map (Kindle Edition)
From Booklist
Travel writer Fraser enchanted readers with her tale of her postdivorce romance with a sophisticated French professor in An Italian Affair (2001). She continues the story here, beginning with the end of the affair after the professor finds someone he wants to settle down with. Fraser wants the same thing, but she still finds herself most drawn to free-spirited men looking for flings, not relationships. An assault in Samoa leaves her shaken—and afraid to travel alone. Fraser turns her focus inward, trying to find peace through meditation and to temper her impulsiveness. Her forty-fifth birthday brings the end of a relationship and the beginning of something new when Fraser travels to the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende and finds herself contemplating buying a house. The title is an apt description of both Fraser’s travels—which include jaunts to Italy, Provence, and Rwanda described in evocative, lush prose—and her frame of mind over the course of the eight years that her winning coming-of-middle-age memoir spans. --Kristine Huntley
Review
“Makes you want to pack your bags, explore the world, mend your broken heart, and totally reclaim your life.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Praise for the New York Times bestselling AN ITALIAN AFFAIR
“Sweet, smart. We are smitten from the start.”
—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Luscious. . . . Fraser is such a charmer, so smart, honest, observant, incisive and funny, that within a few pages the reader is entirely hers.”
—The Washington Post
“A beach book for your brain. . . . A sexy, intellectual read.”
—Redbook
“Both a grand travelogue and a thoughtful look at reclaiming independence.”
—Conde Nast Traveler
“A deliciously romantic story, made even more captivating by the idea that someone actually experienced it.”
—The Times (London)
From the Hardcover edition.
Travel writer Fraser enchanted readers with her tale of her postdivorce romance with a sophisticated French professor in An Italian Affair (2001). She continues the story here, beginning with the end of the affair after the professor finds someone he wants to settle down with. Fraser wants the same thing, but she still finds herself most drawn to free-spirited men looking for flings, not relationships. An assault in Samoa leaves her shaken—and afraid to travel alone. Fraser turns her focus inward, trying to find peace through meditation and to temper her impulsiveness. Her forty-fifth birthday brings the end of a relationship and the beginning of something new when Fraser travels to the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende and finds herself contemplating buying a house. The title is an apt description of both Fraser’s travels—which include jaunts to Italy, Provence, and Rwanda described in evocative, lush prose—and her frame of mind over the course of the eight years that her winning coming-of-middle-age memoir spans. --Kristine Huntley
Review
“Makes you want to pack your bags, explore the world, mend your broken heart, and totally reclaim your life.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Praise for the New York Times bestselling AN ITALIAN AFFAIR
“Sweet, smart. We are smitten from the start.”
—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Luscious. . . . Fraser is such a charmer, so smart, honest, observant, incisive and funny, that within a few pages the reader is entirely hers.”
—The Washington Post
“A beach book for your brain. . . . A sexy, intellectual read.”
—Redbook
“Both a grand travelogue and a thoughtful look at reclaiming independence.”
—Conde Nast Traveler
“A deliciously romantic story, made even more captivating by the idea that someone actually experienced it.”
—The Times (London)
From the Hardcover edition.
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