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Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
Riverhead Hardcover
May 2012
On Sale: May 10, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 1594487251
EAN: 9781594487255
Kindle: B0072NZZYE
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his
only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it
promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the
kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi,
closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes
Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to
paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken invitation
to join him on an ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, he
grabs his sneakers, glad of the chance to be committed to
something and someone.
Irreverent, moving, hilarious, and thought-provoking,
A Sense of Direction is Lewis-Kraus's dazzling riff on the
perpetual war between discipline and desire, and its
attendant casualties. Across three pilgrimages and many
hundreds of miles - the thousand-year-old Camino de
Santiago, a solo circuit of eighty-eight Buddhist temples on
the Japanese island of Shikoku, and, together with his
father and brother, an annual mass migration to the tomb of
a famous Hasidic mystic in the Ukraine - he completes an
idiosyncratic odyssey to the heart of a family mystery and a
human dilemma: How do we come to terms with what has been
and what is - and find a way forward, with purpose?
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