Incognito Street

How Travel Made Me a Writer

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By Barbara Sjoholm

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Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe; a small inheritance from her grandmother gave her the opportunity. 

Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada. She managed a sourvenir shop in the Norwegian mountains and worked as a dishwasher on the Norwegian Coastal Steamer. Set on becoming a writer, she read everything from Colette to Dickens to Borges, changing her style and her subject every few weeks, and gradually found her voice. Incognito Street is the story of a young woman's search for artistic, political, and sexual identity while digesting the changing world around her. 

As she sheds the ghosts of her childhood, we come to know her quiet yet adventurous spirit. In moments that are tender, funny, bewildering, and suspenseful, we see an evocative look at Europe through the blossoming writer’s maturing eyes.

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On Sale
Oct 12, 2006
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Seal Press
ISBN-13
9781580051729

Barbara Sjoholm

About the Author

Co-founder of Seal Press, Barbara Sjoholm has spent most of her life in the literary arts, as a writer, editor, translator, teacher, and publisher. She is the author of Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood,, Incognito Street,, and The Pirate Queen, and editor of the anthology Steady as She Goes: Women’s Adventures at Sea. Barbara’s personal and travel essays have appeared in the Harvard Review, the American Scholar, and the Antioch Review, as well as the New York Times, Slate, and Smithsonian.

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