A review by jennifer
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes

5.0

A beautifully written meditation on what home means and one man's journey to define it following a serious illness, told through the lens of a natural history book on the migration of snow geese. Somehow it manages at the same time to be one of the more compelling American road trip memoirs I've read. I love the detours the book takes into the etymology of nostalgia and homesickness. The prose is of a particular variety of precision and care that requires equal care in reading. In lesser hands such care could have been tedious, but Fiennes manages to make it a tool of transcendence.