Travel Writing. Women's Literature. AN INN NEAR KYOTO is the third book (following THE HOUSE ON VIA GOMBITO and TANZANIA ON TUESDAY) in a series of women's travel writing anthologies published by New Rivers Press. Like the writings in the first two volumes, the over forty pieces in AN INN NEAR KYOTO represent a vast array of perspectives, each of which sheds light on the particular textures of different societies: Water buffalo roam the paths of this village. I follow the sounds of gamelons and find a large orchestra rehearsing with their teacher. Someone beckons me in and I listen for hours to metal clappers and gamelons and loud drumming that rises and falls in waves. I wonder if I am being changed by this music, the strange rhythms, the relentlessness (Judith Azrael, Sketch Book: Indonesia).
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All of these stories and essays . . . describe in rich, vivid detail, the encounters of these remarkable and highly individual writers with cultures from which they learn in many surprising ways what it means to be at home in the world and what it means to be American in an often strange, sometimes exotic, sometimes ordinary place.
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From "Sketch Book," by Judith Azrael: The village boys are filled with longing. Ketut wants a bag to carry his books. Wayan wants a watch he can wear into the sea. They want my scuffed sandals and my sweater and my daughter's photograph. We have nothing, they tell me. I gesture toward the fringe of shining white sand and the sea. We have nothing, they say again.
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