I love a good travel book. There's nothing quite like living the travel experience through a well phrased sentence. Nothing like reading an exact experience you've had while traveling in whatever country the author is flawlessly describing.
This is how I felt when I read Holy Cow by Sarah Macdonald. A pitch perfect account of how crazy, ridiculous, amazing, awe-inspiring, India is, Holy Cow, paints a vivid picture of not only the extreme poverty and life-flashes-before-your-eyes driving, but also the thick cloud of smog that hangs over Delhi, the smells of food and burning trash, the cows meandering through the streets, causing gridlock.
Macdonald has a way of making you laugh and tugging at your heart strings in the same paragraph, sometimes in the same sentence. A great depiction of a country that spills over with contradiction and irony. Great book!
Happy Reading,
Julia
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