Have you ever read a memoir written by a 10-year-old? Half A World Away fuses Jonathan A. Wright’s childhood journals with deep memory to reimagine visits to more than 50 locations across the globe more than half a century ago. Read more…
Praise for Half a World Away
“Sixty years later, Jonathan A. Wright’s magical eyes of boyhood have recreated his own “grand tour” of the world, with his family (and me!) in the early I96os. And what a time it was — post-war, but before we Americans acquired a taste for imperialism. You might imagine the author as a 10-year-old Henry James, with flashes of Mark Twain’s bite in The Innocents Abroad. For 21st Century readers, there’s an enchanting round-the-world coming of age memoir set in a vanished world that could very well break your heart.”
– Christopher Lydon, Open Source
“With the innocence of young eyes and with the perspective of a long life well lived, Wright gives us this sweet, loving memoir full of the wonder and mystery that is our world. Bravo!”
– Ken Burns, filmmaker
