Critical distance: A travel memoir

Critical Distance is an original travel memoir comprised of eight independent essays that examine the external and internal movements of a young woman who is infinitely drawn to the horizon. She travels across five continents, motivated officially by conducting research, pursuing education or following curiosity, but her vision of each place is quickly complicated by the people she meets and her own struggles to connect. Moving from an often intellectual to a more emotional approach towards navigating experience, in Critical Distance she questions the balance of those approaches that we try to find in the world and the definitions we craft to explain it. The narrator finds that the answers are never stable, stationary things, but continually evolve over time and over pages, influenced by each new place. More significantly, she realizes there is no resolution that can change the fact that she will, on some level, always keep moving.