Elkin’s book is a homage to women walking and wandering the cities of the world, in various forms and for various reasons. It’s a lyrical and contemplative study of the relationship between women and the city, with the act of walking as a mediator through which this relationship is realized, nurtured, and as Elkin demonstrates deftly, conveyed. Part memoir and part an exercise in biography, Elkin intersperses the life stories of women like Jean Rhys, George Sand, Virginia Woolf, and others, with her own experiences of walking in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London.

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