{"product_id":"9780990322108","title":"Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of journeys, but it is not a guidebook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCannot Stay\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't merely describe traveling to Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and Europe. It delves into why we leave our front porch in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese twelve essays take us from Bali to the Baltics, from Corsica to Cambodia. But more importantly, they speak to the experience of travel, to shake loose of your at-home identity and pack all you need in a worn daypack. \u003ci\u003eCannot Stay\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to how travel reawakens us to the world by revealing the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCheck in. A subdued line of passengers, everybody waiting their turn. Someone pushes a small bag forward, eyeing with a smirk the woman with the luggage trolley. It's always so. And yet, even that woman is traveling light, leaving behind far more than she could ever pack into a few suitcases. By necessity, the traveler gives up on things, preferring for a time the experience of going.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Oderman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two expat novels, including Etruscan Press's \u003ci\u003eWhite Vespa\u003c\/i\u003e. Winner of the Bakeless Prize in nonfiction, he has taught as a Fulbright Scholar in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Lahore, Pakistan. He teaches at both West Virginia University and Wilkes University's low-residency creative writing graduate program.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Etruscan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133820092656,"sku":"9780990322108","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780990322108_p0.jpg?v=1763896389","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780990322108","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}