Name: Hearts
ISBN: 9780345487513

Hilma Wolitzer

A Novel

Hearts

Sarah Sammis

In 2015 when I first re-started my road narrative project, I added Hearts to my list of books to read. Most scholarly work on American road narratives, be they novels, memoirs, or films, is focused on a very narrow range of author/experience. The white male traveler — the white male author — is written about as if this type of story is the only one that exists. Rarely, women's stories are included — usually in opposition to the male experience to demonstrate how dangerous the road is for a woman without a man.

Hearts by academia's logic shouldn't exist. Linda and Robin shouldn't safely make it across the country. One or both of them should have expected to face a "fate worth than death." While their journey isn't a smooth ride, save for one scene at an abortion clinic, the ride is uneventful.

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Hearts A Novel