Review of Away We Go (2009) by David Edelstein for New York Magazine (Vulture) — 20 Nov 2017
Travel--finding the self by escaping the self--is central to the novels of Eggers and Vida, but Mendes knows where he's going before he gets there. And so the subject of Away We Go turns out to be not travel but child-rearing, which is at best well-meaning and anguished and at worst downright monstrous.
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This review of Away We Go (2009) was written by David Edelstein and published by New York Magazine (Vulture) on 20 Nov 2017.
Away We Go has generally received positive reviews.
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