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  • Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
  • Written by: Jessa Crispin
  • Narrated by: Amy McFadden
  • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Narrated by: Amy McFadden
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When Jessa Crispin was 30, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender.

The Dead Ladies Project is an account of that journey - but it's also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of key locations in a literary map of places that have drawn writers who needed to break free from their origins and start afresh. As she reflects on William James struggling through despair in Berlin, Nora Barnacle dependent on and dependable for James Joyce in Trieste, Maud Gonne fomenting revolution and fostering myth in Dublin, or Igor Stravinsky starting over from nothing in Switzerland, Crispin interweaves biography, incisive literary analysis, and personal experience into a rich meditation on the complicated interactions of place, personality, and society that can make escape and reinvention such an attractive, even intoxicating proposition.

©2015 Jessa Crispin (P)2016 Tantor
Art & Literature Literature & Fiction World Literature Europe Adventure Travel
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"I'd follow Jessa Crispin to the ends of the earth." (Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex)

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Great stuff

Thoroughly enjoyed this, perhaps partly due to the fact that I travelled for a long period with just a single bag and few garments. Liked the combination of reflections on her life, while she figures out what’s next, interwoven with authors and their works.
Only improvement would have been an accompanying list of books and works.

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