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In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, in Without Reservations we take time off with Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach as she explores the world and rediscovers what it means to be a woman on her own. "In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Alice Steinbach, a single working mother, in this captivating book. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow, and had relationships that allowed for a lot of freedom on both sides." Slowly, however, she saw that she had become quite dependent in another way: "I had fallen into the habit...of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people and what they expected of me." Who am I, she wanted to know, away from the things that define me - my family, children, job, friends? Steinbach searches for the answer to this provocative question in some of the most exciting places in the world: Paris, where she finds a soulmate in a Japanese man; Oxford, where she takes a course on the English village; Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to be married. Beautifully illustrated with postcards Steinbach wrote home to herself to pres

Who reads Without Reservations : the Travels of an Independent Woman?

Author

Steinbach, Alice

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375758454

Category

travel

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.8 / 5 (7,849 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14