Teow Lim Goh is the author of two previous books, Islanders and Faraway Places. Her essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared in The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, and The New Yorker.

Western Journeys is compelling, powerful, and important. The erasure that Goh wants to combat can only be addressed one word at a time. That is the power and the pain of recovery—it is slow—but once the hidden gets pulled into the light it cannot be lost again. Each of these essays is an act of hauling the past into the present, of naming what many might prefer to ignore or deny."—Jennifer Sinor, author of Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World and Ordinary Trauma"The writing in Western Journeys is gorgeous, alternatingly spare and lush, in explicating how Teow Lim Goh found her writerly voice as an immigrant enthralled by an American West built upon the legislated and violent erasure of non-whites."—Michelle Liu, University of Washington

• I: Beyond the MythsHollywood PilgrimsCoastlinesDreams of Golden MountainFirecrackerAt the RuinsII: Ordinary LegaciesWestern JourneysAscentThe Ideology of ParadiseA Memory of HillsAt the PondsIII: Visions of LandThe Road Home: On Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Over theRiverFlowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on AlcatrazSplitFootsteps on the SeaLetter to the ArcticIV: ApocalypsesBorders and CitizensRefuge: Rocky Flats, ColoradoThe Ghosts of Bitter CreekHome LandsFire SeasonV: Off the PageThe Stories that Bind UsThe Subjective PassionsLost and Found: On Kate Zambreno’s HeroinesOn TenacityThe Dehumanizing Politics of LikabilityNotesBibliographyAcknowledgments

Teow Lim Goh is the author of two previous books, Islanders and Faraway Places. Her essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared in The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, and The New Yorker.

Western Journeys is compelling, powerful, and important. The erasure that Goh wants to combat can only be addressed one word at a time. That is the power and the pain of recovery—it is slow—but once the hidden gets pulled into the light it cannot be lost again. Each of these essays is an act of hauling the past into the present, of naming what many might prefer to ignore or deny."—Jennifer Sinor, author of Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World and Ordinary Trauma"The writing in Western Journeys is gorgeous, alternatingly spare and lush, in explicating how Teow Lim Goh found her writerly voice as an immigrant enthralled by an American West built upon the legislated and violent erasure of non-whites."—Michelle Liu, University of Washington

• I: Beyond the MythsHollywood PilgrimsCoastlinesDreams of Golden MountainFirecrackerAt the RuinsII: Ordinary LegaciesWestern JourneysAscentThe Ideology of ParadiseA Memory of HillsAt the PondsIII: Visions of LandThe Road Home: On Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Over theRiverFlowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on AlcatrazSplitFootsteps on the SeaLetter to the ArcticIV: ApocalypsesBorders and CitizensRefuge: Rocky Flats, ColoradoThe Ghosts of Bitter CreekHome LandsFire SeasonV: Off the PageThe Stories that Bind UsThe Subjective PassionsLost and Found: On Kate Zambreno’s HeroinesOn TenacityThe Dehumanizing Politics of LikabilityNotesBibliographyAcknowledgments

Teow Lim Goh is the author of two previous books, Islanders and Faraway Places. Her essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared in The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, and The New Yorker.

Western Journeys is compelling, powerful, and important. The erasure that Goh wants to combat can only be addressed one word at a time. That is the power and the pain of recovery—it is slow—but once the hidden gets pulled into the light it cannot be lost again. Each of these essays is an act of hauling the past into the present, of naming what many might prefer to ignore or deny."—Jennifer Sinor, author of Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World and Ordinary Trauma"The writing in Western Journeys is gorgeous, alternatingly spare and lush, in explicating how Teow Lim Goh found her writerly voice as an immigrant enthralled by an American West built upon the legislated and violent erasure of non-whites."—Michelle Liu, University of Washington

• I: Beyond the MythsHollywood PilgrimsCoastlinesDreams of Golden MountainFirecrackerAt the RuinsII: Ordinary LegaciesWestern JourneysAscentThe Ideology of ParadiseA Memory of HillsAt the PondsIII: Visions of LandThe Road Home: On Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Over theRiverFlowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on AlcatrazSplitFootsteps on the SeaLetter to the ArcticIV: ApocalypsesBorders and CitizensRefuge: Rocky Flats, ColoradoThe Ghosts of Bitter CreekHome LandsFire SeasonV: Off the PageThe Stories that Bind UsThe Subjective PassionsLost and Found: On Kate Zambreno’s HeroinesOn TenacityThe Dehumanizing Politics of LikabilityNotesBibliographyAcknowledgments