Joyce Marcel presents her book, 'Joyriding'
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Location
Keene Toadstool Bookshop @ 12 Emerald St.
Keene, NH, 03431, US
Organized by Discover Monadnock
Categories
- Books & literature
- Keene
About this event
At its heart, Joyriding is the compelling narrative of a painfully shy 32-year-old Joyce Marcel who began traveling in 1974 after losing her career, her husband and her unborn child at nearly the same time . With strength, courage, naiveté and a measure of cluelessness, she created a new and adventurous persona on the road in South America. Among the things Joyriding describes: watching the birth of a deformed baby on a mountain bus at midnight; the amazing potions with which a witch doctor cured her of hepatitis; and becoming shipwrecked in the Amazon and hitching out on tugboats, navy vessels, dugout canoes, cars, trucks and airplanes. It includes several love stories . It ends with a new career and, sadly, with a broken heart.