Greyhound

Title: Greyhound
Author: Joanna Pocock
Memoir: 1686335
ISBN: 9781593768010
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposeless

In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the cities, edgelands, highways, and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers--Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin, and Irma Kurtz--who also chronicled their road trips across the United States. Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing, and literary criticism, Greyhound is a moving and immersive book that captures an America in the throes of late capitalism with all its beauty, horror, and complexity.