Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Book Review: The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World

The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World

By: Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, Amanda Pressner


Friends Pressner, Baggett, and Corbett were all busy climbing the corporate ladder of Manhattan media when they realized that, in their late twenties, they weren't sure they were heading down the right path. Reprioritizing, they decide on an extreme course of action: quit their jobs and take a year-long trip around the world. In this group memoir, the three take turns chronicling a journey from Peru to Kenya to Vietnam to Australia, and everywhere in between.

The Lost Girls captures the generational struggle so many twentysomethings face as they try to find their way with no clear map.

Pros: fast read, great travel guide, light-hearted, relate-able
Cons: a bit long...can drag on at times, sometimes repetitive, makes you want to quit your job

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