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Greyhound
- Author
- Joanna Pocock
- Narrator
- Courtney Patterson
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 14 April 2026
- Run Time
- 8 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposeless
In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the cities, edgelands, highways, and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers—Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin, and Irma Kurtz—who also chronicled their road trips across the United States. Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing, and literary criticism, Greyhound is a moving and immersive book that captures an America in the throes of late capitalism with all its beauty, horror, and complexity.
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Details
- Author
- Joanna Pocock
- Narrator
- Courtney Patterson
- Duration
- 8 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 April 2026
- ISBN
- 9798318555589
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Memoirs, Travel and holiday, Travel writing
Synopsis
Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposelessIn 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the cities, edgelands, highways, and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers—Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin, and Irma Kurtz—who also chronicled their road trips across the United States. Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing, and literary criticism, Greyhound is a moving and immersive book that captures an America in the throes of late capitalism with all its beauty, horror, and complexity.
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