Caravan: Saharan Sands, Hidden Histories, and Family Ties

Part coming-of-old memoir, part mesmerizing travelogue, Caravan is an elegantly layered account of one woman’s excavation of her own half-erased, half-forgotten past.

Who was this woman? This woman who did so much she could scarcely think?
Who was the girl before this woman?
I peer through the years to the girl I now scarcely know.
She is in shadow.

Caravan is the story of a daughter and her mother, of a family that was never quite what it seemed.

Alexandra Pringle was an editor and publis...