Try to Get Lost

Download or read book Try to Get Lost written by Joan Frank and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the author’s travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media’s depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word “hotel,” and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place—the “vastest real estate we know,” with a “stunningly short” lease.