{"id":7450,"date":"2019-10-30T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2019-11-26T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:55:50","slug":"featured-reviews-of-tiny-lights-for-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2019\/10\/30\/featured-reviews-of-tiny-lights-for-travellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews of &#8220;Tiny Lights for Travellers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/947-9781772124484-tiny-lights-for-travellers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Tiny Lights for Travellers<\/a><\/em> starts with a zit, percolating brightly on the nose of our author while she takes the transatlantic flight that begins the book. In a strange, unlikely, funny, unabashed and endearing way, this first image in Naomi K. Lewis&#8217;s reluctant, almost anti-travel memoir encapsulates much of what her book is about.&#8221; Laurie D. Graham, <em>Alberta Views<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Early on in Tiny Lights for Travellers, author Naomi Lewis admits she is a poor traveller. She is, however, a master navigator of her own interior geography. In this quiet, humble, and profoundly openhearted memoir, Lewis maps her family\u2019s history, her relationship to faith, and the loves she has both lost and gained. As a reader, I feel thankful to have been invited on the journey.&#8221; Marcello Di Cintio, author of <em>Pay No Heed to the Rockets<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;An irresistibly wise, poignant, and often funny memoir, a spiral dance through time and space exploring memory, desire, the roots of family, race, and religion; as well as what it means to belong in one\u2019s own skin.&#8221; Lauren B. 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