Lauren Hough retraces Steinbeck's 10,000-mile road trip across a changed America
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Lise Olsen
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Austin writer Lauren Hough retraces John Steinbeck's iconic 10,000-mile road trip across America in a 2001 Dodge Ram van with her dog Woody, six decades after Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. The resulting book explores whether such a journey is still possible in a much-altered America, drawing its title from Steinbeck's description of the country as "a monster of a land."
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Tension crackles as Hough and Woody head almost immediately...
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