{"product_id":"9781466853089","title":"Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America with Interruptions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book about America de Tocqueville might have written had he spent some time in the nation's smoking sections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As she did in the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eSkating to Antarctica\u003c\/i\u003e, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflection and revelation. \u003ci\u003eStranger on a Train\u003c\/i\u003e is a combination of travelogue and memoir, a penetrating portrait of America and Americans that is at the same time an unsparing look in the mirror. Traveling and remembering both involve confronting strangers—those we have just met and those we once were—and acknowledging the play of proximity and separation. Diski has written a moving, courageous, and deeply rewarding book about who we are, and the landscapes through which we have passed to get there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144001896688,"sku":"9781466853089","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466853089_p0.jpg?v=1769891468","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466853089","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}