Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer

Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe. Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada, finding odd jobs to make ends meet. Set on becoming a writer, she read everything from Colette to Dickens to Borges, changing her style and her subject every few weeks, and gradually found her voice. Incognito Street is the story of a young woman's search for artistic, political, and sexual identity while digesting the changing world around her. As she sheds the ghosts of her childhood, we come to know her quiet yet adventurous spirit. In moments that are tender, funny, bewildering, and suspenseful, we see an evocative look at Europe through the blossoming writer's maturing eyes.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: 11/01/2006
ISBN: 9781580051729
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.64w x 1.00d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/25/2006 pg. 61
Booklist 11/15/2006 pg. 17
Lambda Book Report 12/01/2007 pg. 12