The History Worker, (Paperback)

Anyone with a history should read Jenny Drai's The History Worker. This book takes you from the lapidary Hearst Castle extravagance of California's Central Coast through America to the wilds of Romania and other European outposts. Several journeys, a commentary and much history occur in a broken yet flowing text of details, discoveries and imprecations. We are caught up in Drai's expeditions and implicated by her discoveries. The History Worker is " a sweet and voyeuristic pickle/marathon of wick-light" in the best, most dazzling sense. -- Laura Moriarty
I love this book. I love how it revisits the history we are drawn to as children-- ""your life collects in what heart you choose"" -- how we turn & return to that history as adults to read a new text through it like a palimpsest made by our own reading & writing lives. -- Pattie McCarthy