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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Dale Zurawski’s The Travel Bitch: Bouncing Across the Globe on a Bipolar High really begins after an Amazon trip sends her back to childhood, in a home changed by her father’s death. Later, a bipolar diagnosis gives a name to the behavior that had already shaped years of movement across borders. The memoir follows the author through travel that places ordinary reactions in unfamiliar public settings. In Switzerland, she learns how much daily life depends on language when her children enter local schools. In East Africa, she watches her children meet people whose homes make Southern California feel distant. In Iceland, bad weather follows the trip toward a glacier she would have skipped. Through each journey, Zurawski shows how travel records the person who arrives, including the history she takes into every new place.
Dale Zurawski’s The Travel Bitch is an extremely thoughtful memoir, and I love everything that the author shares with us. The memoir is loaded with a mix of heartening and jarring moments, whether describing reaching Antarctica to complete her seventh continent, or when an Amazon canoe fills with rain—which is also hilarious, in hindsight. The author is easy to like because she lets travel revise her assumptions, and helps readers do the same. The most eye-opening is in Palestine, where the realities of occupation in the West Bank change what she understands about the plight of the people. I also like the pure honesty and how sobriety helps her shape years of journals into a book. Readers benefit from a totally grounded view of bipolar disorder and its impact. Well written and immersive, readers who enjoy travel writing with a real twist will adore this. Very highly recommended.
