Warning: This book is not to be picked up when one is remotely down in the dumps. Or maybe that's exactly when one should read this stream-of-consciousness account of one woman's leaving of old life in New York for new, uncertain, very lost, very disorganised searching for any kind of remnant of a life in New Zealand. From the blurb I expected big descriptions of New Zealand's big landscapes as well as big reveals of big twists and turns in the plot. I didn't exactly get either of these things, but I definitely got something from this book... though I'm still not sure what I got from it. But that's absolutely fine with me. Sometimes that's enough.