I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home (English Edition) - by Jami Attenberg

In this new memoir from New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg — her first work of nonfiction — readers learn more about the storied writer. Attenberg, the daughter of a traveling salesman, always found solace on the road. And with her independent spirit and passion for writing, she traveled across the globe, where she landed unfulfilling jobs and embarked on crushing book tours. In I Came All This Way to Meet You, Attenberg explores her most defining moments and what it means to dedicate yourself to your art, while approaching these heady topics with honesty and humor.
“Ultimately, her memoir is about what it is like not to have, nor even much to want, all the things that are supposed to make a woman complete. . . . [Attenberg’s] memoir is, in other words, a powerful antidote to pernicious fantasies of the tulle-skirt-and-soya-latte kind. . . . She’s very funny, and it’s this that makes her marvelous.”

-The Guardian