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"If [Houston's] unlucky in love, she's certainly lucky in prose. She makes everyday accidental details of nature fly vividly off the page." -- Alan Cheuse - NPR "Houston is a wonderful writer, and her graceful vignettes are by turns beautiful, slyly funny and heart-stopping." -- Rebecca Barry - San Francisco Chronicle "Houston builds her story out of 132 highly crafted vignettes identified by place names-gems in a constantly changing mosaic." -- Jane Ciabattari - Boston Globe "Houston is a consummate yarn spinner-smart, funny, and elegant-and her autobiographically tinged book is full of vignette realizations, beautiful scenery, and amazing adventures by a narrator you'd kill to have as a best friend." -- Courtney Ferguson - Portland Mercury "A tale so vivid, intricate, and intimate that it puts high-def TV to shame: One moment, we're straddling lava flowing from a Hawaiian volcano; the next, we're watching thousands of glowworms light up a New Zealand cave...Peppered throughout is advice to live by, stuff worth scribbling down and posting on your inspiration board for when that dark cloud rolls in." -- Natasha Clark - Elle "True to its title, each snippet harbors small dips and rises that add up to cumulative wisdom by book's end, and a satisfying arc of anecdote that makes a convincing whole." -- Ben Fulton - Salt Lake Tribune "Eat, Pray, Love meets Up in the Air in this engaging novel about a woman whose craving for adventure (and jerk of a boyfriend) sends her flying." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "A driving kinetic energy...keeps the reader whirling as Pam turns an observant and critical eye on herself, her relationship, and her country...Houston is as adept a writer as she is an adventurer. And it's her writing with its startling images of the natural world that set this book apart from the rest." -- Erika Recordon - Oregonian