Greyhound

GreyhoundBy: Joanna Pocock In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin and Irma Kurtz who chronicled their own road trips across the US. In Greyhound, Pocock explores the

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你沒有別人，也沒有自己。

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her safety is ensured

Elizabeth tells her story in her own words

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