Part Lao, Part FalangBest Travel Writing 2005, True Stories from Around the World February 2005 The best travel writing entertains and enlightens, inspires and
instructs. Kathryn Kefauver manages to do all these things at once, in
her unaffected yet forceful imagery from "Part Lao, Part Falang:"
"The symptoms for river blindness formed a perfect haiku: skin can become
thick, / dark, scaly redness and tears, / finally, blindness." There,
in the poetic form's classic seventeen syllables, she conveys both the
substance of the country and her experience within it, capturing the
reality of life in a developing culture and communicating its effect
upon her with crisp clarity and lyric vitality. Some, like Pico Iyer's elegant account of yet another
journey to Dharamsala in northern India, and Murad Kalam's story of making the
hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, are handsomely crafted examples of the
travel genre. Kathryn Kefauver's recollection of alarming culinary encounters
in Laos, and Sally Shivnan's loving description of Alhambra, the ornate
Moorish palace in Spain, are real gems. |
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 The Beginner's Gift A Woman's Asia, Travelers' Tales May 2005 |
 Salvaging The Chicago Quarterly Review Spring 2005 |
 It Takes a Village to Please My Mother Best Women's Travel Writing 2005 Travelers' Tales, April 2005 |
 Part Lao, Part Falang Spring 2004 AWP Intro to Journals First Prize Award in Creative Nonfiction
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By The Sides of Deep RiversGoing Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild Anthology by Seal Press, May 2004 There are plenty of wilderness adventures in this collection, but the editor thankfully realizes that "going alone" doesn't always entail a sleeping bag, wilderness and no other humans for miles and miles. In Kathryn Kefauver's "By the Sides of the Deep Rivers," "alone" is a state of mind and Kefauver shows us how one can be as alone in the populated Himalayan foothills of Nepal as in the deepest wilderness. — Nicole Panter, Missoula Independent |
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 Lesson No. 1: Laughter Needs No Translation The Christian Science Monitor August 2003 |
 The Cool Good Life Is The Farmer's The Gettysburg Review Winter 2003 |
