{"product_id":"cannot-stay-essays-on-travel-9780989753289","title":"Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of journeys, but it is not a guidebook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCannot Stay\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't merely describe traveling to Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and Europe. It delves into why we leave our front porch in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese twelve essays take us from Bali to the Baltics, from Corsica to Cambodia. But more importantly, they speak to the experience of travel, to what it means to shake loose of your at-home identity and pack all you need in a worn daypack. \u003ci\u003eCannot Stay\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to how travel reawakens us to the world by revealing the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCheck in. A subdued line of passengers, everybody waiting their turn. Someone pushes a small bag forward, eyeing with a smirk the woman with the luggage trolley. It's always so. And yet, even that woman is traveling light, leaving behind far more than she could ever pack into a few suitcases. By necessity, the traveler gives up on things, preferring for a time the experience of going.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Oderman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two expat novels, including Etruscan Press's \u003ci\u003eWhite Vespa\u003c\/i\u003e. Winner of the Bakeless Prize in nonfiction, he has taught as a Fulbright Scholar in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Lahore, Pakistan. He teaches at both West Virginia University and Wilkes University's low-residency creative writing graduate program.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Etruscan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780989753289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2015 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin Oderman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36646612926620,"sku":"9780989753289","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_51437462-04a8-427d-93bb-25caf3637ef0.jpg?v=1603864672","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cannot-stay-essays-on-travel-9780989753289","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}