Touch Anywhere to Begin

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Publication Year:
2022

ISBN-13: 9780864927231

<p><b>Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)</b></p><p>From acclaimed author Mark Anthony Jarman comes <i>Touch Anywhere to Begin</i>, his first book of travel writing since the publication of the critically acclaimed <i>Ireland’s Eye</i> in 2002.</p><p>In 18 unusual, head-spinning essays, Jarman can drift through Venice amid the revelry of carnival and the arrival of the impending pandemic or visit a private club along Shanghai’s Huangpu River to be serenaded by a band of retired People’s Liberation Army singers. In &#8220;Panthers and Gods Prowl a Palace of Sin,&#8221; an invitation to the Kala Ghoda Festival in Mumbai forges a connection with a jetlagged pair of Arctic throat singers and a doctor fascinated by Canada. In &#8220;Jesus on the Mainline,&#8221; an extended hospitalization beside the intubated victim of a drunk-driving accident reveals a difficult family drama.</p><p>And this, of course, is only the beginning. Masterfully written, <i>Touch Anywhere to Begin</i> penetrates the impressionistic moments and intimacies of travel to reveal character and place like none other.</p>