Natalie Toon Patton
Autor de Wanderlost: Falling from Grace and Finding Mercy in All the Wrong Places
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Natalie Toon Patton was born and raised in Arkansas, where she learned all the correct answers until she lived abroad for ten years and became very confused. She writes about the intersection of travel and spirituality, as well as refugee causes. She currently lives in Botswana with her husband, mostrar más three children, and their Burmese cat named Genghis Khan. mostrar menos
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This is not an ordinary travel memoir. Rather, it is the story of the author's personal transformation from an provincial, evangelical Arkansas girl to a cosmopolitan woman with a reinvented perspective on her faith. Patton recounts her youth, her early career and religious upbringing, and her failed first marriage before launching into her travelogue, which took her to Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Syria, the UAE, Tanzania, Japan, and Thailand. Her story is thoroughly engrossing, as she recounts many weird-but-true stories (such as a request for a romantic relationship from a UAE Sheik's son!) that are better than fiction. I was captivated by Patton's personal development and growth, as she related how aspects of her early involvement with an evangelical "Christian" congregation was detrimental to her interpersonal relationships and sense of self. It's clear that she evolved a lot over the course of her life and abandoned much of the earlier dogma to which she subscribed, but sometimes her tone is still a little preachy. Her experiences with a Somali refugee family in Thailand should be required reading for anyone needing to know more about issues impacting immigration. Cheers to Patton for sharing the ups and downs of her life story and broadening the horizons for readers everywhere!… (más)