A review by xmooniex
A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus

3.0

I would have enjoyed it more without the increasingly religious undertones at the end. I am not talking about the religious details of the section set at Uman; all of Gideon's pilgrimages were ostensibly religious in nature, and generally tackled from a secular point of view. When he reached the end of the section about Uman, however, Gideon started talking in a more spiritual way, which kind of threw me off. I wouldn't go so far as to say it felt like a betrayal, but it was offputting for me, as an atheist and as someone who had thoroughly enjoyed the kinds of secular observations he made on his first two pilgrimages.