Anyone with a history should read Jenny Drai’ s The History Worker. This book takes you from the lapidary Hearst Castle extravagance of California’ s Central Coast through America to the wilds of Romania and other European outposts. Several journeys, a commentary and much history occur in a broken yet flowing text of details, discoveries and imprecations. We are caught up in Drai’ s expeditions and implicated by her discoveries. The History Worker is “ a sweet and voyeuristic pickle/marathon of wick-light” in the best, most dazzling sense.— Laura Moriarty
I love this book. I love how it revisits the history we are drawn to as children— ""your life collects in what heart you choose"" — how we turn & return to that history as adults to read a new text through it like a palimpsest made by our own reading & writing lives. — Pattie McCarthy