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Follows the prize-winning memoir, "Skating To Antartica". Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train, where she meets all kind of characters with stories to tell. "Beautifully written" "The Times"
Synopsis
Following 'Skating to Antarctica', Diski picks up her story at the age of 16, when she checked herself into a mental hospital. She traces the journey back to some kind of sanity, intercutting it with a contemporary journey across America.