WHITE SANDS

Geoff Dyer's perennial search for tranquility, for something better, continues in this series of fascinating and seemingly unrelat ed pilgrimageswith a tour guide who is in fact not a tour guide at the Forbidden City in Beijing, with friends at the Lightning Fie ld in New Mexico, with a hitchhiker picked up near a prison at White Sands, and with a dream of how things should have been at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have pers isted since c...[Read more]