Tracks

The best thing I loved about this memoir and travelogue is how raw it is. It is not glossed over, it isn't built up to be more than it was intended to be. Robyn's candid recounting of her journey tells it like it is, with all the messy, strange and crazy details along the way. She doubted at times, she both lost and found herself in unexpected ways and she doesn't expect others to either understand or follow in her footsteps. There are nuggets of wisdom and advice littered throughout anyway, whether she intended it or not and if you let it, her story can be more than a feminist tale or a moral lesson, it can imbue the way you look at your life and ways in which you interact with those around you, among so many other little and big things. I don't think even Robyn wants others to pack up and cross a desert literally, but her story does have a way of inspiring you to move, to break free and think beyond the confines of the small world you find yourself and to see the wide world through different eyes and to know it won't be easy or safe when you do.