'Brilliant. Among the best novels I know about the fate of American
innocence abroad' Garth Greenwell So. We were Americans abroad. We
weren't the doomed travellers in a Paul Bowles novel, and we
weren't the idealists or the malarial, religion-damaged burnouts in
something by Greene; but we were people far from home nevertheless.
Our naivety didn't have political consequences. We had G.P.S. in
our smartphones. I don't think we were alcoholics. Our passports
were in the same drawer as our collection of international
adapters, none of which seemed to fit in Brazilian wall sockets. My
husband was in the chrysalis stage of becoming a rich man, and
idealism was never my vice. I was ancillary - a word that comes
from the Latin for 'having the status of a female slave'. That's
the sort of thing I know, and it tells you something about how I
misspent my education. The term among expats for people like me was
'trailing spouse' . . . 'Captivating' Irish Times 'Devastating,
funny and wise' Garth Greenwell 'A triumph' Samantha Harvey 'A
writer so gifted with language that you forget who you are in the
poetry of his prose' Uzodinma Iweala 'Magnificent, profound, and
true' Elisa Albert 'Reminded me in parts of Maggie Nelson.
Stunning' Sophie Mackintosh
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