Joanna Pocock

In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers—Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin and Irma Kurtz—who chronicled their own...