02193cam a2200337 i 4500 420556899 TxAuBib 20200328120000.0 191208s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019032101 9780826361370 PAP 19.95 0826361374 PAP 19.95 TxAuBib rda Frank, Joan, 1949- Try to get lost. Essays Selections. Try to get lost [BOOK] : essays on travel and place / Joan Frank. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020. xxi, 182 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier River teeth literary nonfiction prize Shake me up, Judy -- Cake-frosting country -- Cake-frosting coda : the astonishment index -- In case of Firenze -- A bag of one's own -- Cave of the iron door -- Red state, blue state : a short, biased lament -- Today I will fly -- Little traffic lightmen -- Place as answer : HGTV -- Rules for the well-intended -- Think of England -- Location sluts -- The room where it happens -- Lundi matin -- Coda. I see a long journey. Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word "hotel," and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place--the "vastest real estate we know," with a "stunningly short" lease. Provided by publisher. 20200328. Frank, Joan 1949- Travel United States. Frank, Joan 1949- Travel Europe. United States Description and travel Anecdotes. Europe Description and travel Anecdotes. River teeth literary nonfiction prize.