About the Author

Gail Pool is a writer whose work has focused on criticism, the culture of magazines, and travel. Her columns, essays, and reviews have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, and the Women’s Review of Books. She is also the author of Faint Praise (University of Missouri Press). Pool lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Sanibel, Florida.

Reviews

“An engaging account of a young couple’s anthropological field trip that leaves them disillusioned and lays a foundation for their marriage and subsequent lives. Pool’s particularly effective management of voice as she describes her lifelong attempt to understand her experience make this an accomplished work, as does her plumbing of the power of memoir to go where anthropology cannot.”—Nancy McCabe, author of From Little Houses to Little Women