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An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having by Edith Zimmerman, Carrie Frye, Maria Bustillos, Jenna Wortham, Chiara Atik, Nicole Cliffe, Jim Behrle & Anne Helen Petersen
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An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having

Travel Stories from The Hairpin

$14.99

Length 5 hours 7 minutes
Language English
Narrators Cassandra Campbell & Danny Campbell

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Summary

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless step aerobics classes in Buenos Aires, faking a terrible British accent in London, and navigating a nude spa in Stockholm. About loneliness, connection, and sunburn. And about daring ourselves to be brave and embracing being scared.

These stories are tied together by relationships: making them, losing them, how we behave in their absence. How we thrive when we’re far from home and falling in and out of love in all of the world’s beautiful places.

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Reviews

“The essays read like a bunch of letters from your good friends in distant places…There’s no shortage of revelations big and small in An Experience.” The Atlantic Wire

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