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Robin Foster

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Robin loves to be on the road, exploring new places and uncovering little-known stories buried in the landscape. Grit and Ghosts is an account of her travels across 2020 and 2021, when she headed west to look for stories of resilient women making their way in a world that has ideas of its own. Part biography, part travel-inspired memoir, Grit and Ghosts weaves together inspiring stories of bravery, risk, and passion.

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Average rating: 4.47 · 15 ratings · 10 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Grit and Ghosts: Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women across a Century 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Sail in the Age of Aquarius: The South Street Seaport and the Crisis of the Sixties 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carl Van Doren: A Man of Ideas 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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by Jenny Erpenbeck

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Maybe it's because Flick and I potentially share a birthday (!), but so much of the writing in Homing: Instincts... brought me back to my own experiences, thoughts, understandings of the ways of things across the 1980s and '90s. Flick writes of GenX, ...more
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