JILL JEPSON is assistant professor of English at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches creative writing and linguistics. She has taught writing for 15 years and is an award-winning research anthropologist. She also offers online writing workshops.
An impromptu trip to Mexico begins at Grand Central Station as Bedford, accompanied by her friend Esther Murphy Arthur and a large hamper of chicken, cherries and tomatoes, boards a train, uncertain of a place to stay at journey's end. Once in Mexico, she and Esther attempt to avoid the expatriates and set out to find lunch, a drink and someone to talk to. The final goal is Don Otavio's mansion but on route are myriad small hotel rooms, dusty bus journeys, rendezvous missed and made. A modern classic of travel writing. (Kirkus UK)