Julia and the Art of Practical Travel
When her grandmother dies and the once-majestic family estate is sold, eleven-year-old Julia Lancaster and her aunt Constance must take to the road to find Julia’s long-lost mother. They bring with them only the most practical travel things—silver candlestick holders, a few Oriental carpets, some steamer trunks, and Julia’s beloved Brownie camera, which she will use to document their journey across 1960s America.
On the road, Julia and her aunt meet a cast of peculiar characters, including guitar-strumming hippies in Greenwich Village, a legendary voodoo queen in New Orleans, the honorable proprietor of the World’s End Cattle Ranch in Texas, and the colorful sheriff of Gold Point, Nevada (population: 1), who also happens to be the town’s mayor, fire chief,…
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March 10, 2015
About the Author
Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, and historian based in Los Angeles. She is the author of several critically acclaimed middle-grade novels, including Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, Julia and the Art of Practical Travel, and Tennyson, which the Chicago Tribune praised for its “brilliant, unusual writing.”
Blume’s adult nonfiction book Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises documented the lives of Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and the Murphys in France in the 1920s and was a New York Times bestseller. Her second adult non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World, received glowing reviews…
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