![]() ![]() As much as she claims she wants to spend her time alone, discovering independence, she spends the majority of her time seeking out friendships. However Steinbach does not have the journey she intended. She has the quintessential Parisian experience. She sees fabulous architecture, eats delicious food, has good wine and meets interesting people. Her journalist's eye for detail is noted and appreciated while she is relaying her experiences. ![]() Steinbach takes the reader on a guided tour of Paris, frequenting small cafés and unknown restaurants as well as some major landmarks, such as the Champs Elysées and the Louvre. As such, Steinbach rents a small flat and proceeds to explore her new surroundings and herself. She imagines a metamorphosis of self a year in which she will become a different woman entirely. She envisions the trip as a journey of independence, in which she will attempt to understand what it truly means to be a woman in the middle phase of her life, her children now grown and gone, and herself divorced. ![]() Without Reservations is a travel memoir by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Alice Steinbach, detailing her yearlong travels throughout Europe as a self-proclaimed "independent woman."ĭeciding she needs a drastic change in her life, Steinbach takes a leave of absence from her job as a journalist to move to France. ![]() Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman Review | Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach ![]()
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