Tell someone you live on a boat and one of two things happens. Either they picture a cartoon palm tree and ask what you do when it rains. Or their eyes go wide and they want to know about the superyacht. Rarely anything in between. The Price of Elsewhere is a book about that gap - not the one between landlubber and sailor, but the deeper one. The gap between maps. Between the life you're living and the picture someone else holds of it.
Between the person you left behind and the person you became somewhere out past the expected horizon. The further you travel from the conventional life, the more precisely you discover who was ever really travelling with you. This is not a sailing memoir. It is not a complaint. It is an honest investigation of what happens to belonging when you choose to live differently - written by someone who has lived the question from the inside.
Tell someone you live on a boat and one of two things happens. Either they picture a cartoon palm tree and ask what you do when it rains. Or their eyes go wide and they want to know about the superyacht. Rarely anything in between. The Price of Elsewhere is a book about that gap - not the one between landlubber and sailor, but the deeper one. The gap between maps. Between the life you're living and the picture someone else holds of it.
Between the person you left behind and the person you became somewhere out past the expected horizon. The further you travel from the conventional life, the more precisely you discover who was ever really travelling with you. This is not a sailing memoir. It is not a complaint. It is an honest investigation of what happens to belonging when you choose to live differently - written by someone who has lived the question from the inside.