This is an auction for THE ZIGZAG WAY by Anita Desai.

From Wikipedia:

"The Zigzag Way is a 2004 novel by Anita Desai. The novel is about an American academic and writer who goes with his girlfriend to Mexico and rediscovers his passion for fiction writing. Eric is a postgraduate student. He and his girlfriend Emily who he calls Em lives in a cosy apartment Boston. Emily is a scientist. Eric is working on a dissertation on immigration patterns in the US. But Eric is not fulfilled by his research. While he was struggling, striving with no interest, to finish a thesis his professors had told him to, she goes on a field-trip to Mexico with her fellow doctors and scientists to do research. Bored, out of lost inspiration to continue the thesis, and out of need for fresh inspiration to write on something else, he, too, decides to join her in Mexico City. On arriving in Mexico Eric is told that he cannot live with her in the research site so as not to disturb Emily in her work. Having no where to live, Eric decides to explore and travel Mexico in order to develop his skills as a fiction writer. Eric attends a lecture by the famous academic Dona Vera who, in her speech, mentions of some mining towns that vaguely strikes a memory to Eric: his grandfather had only once mentioned those names and he had not forgotten them. Eric decides to visit the Sierras to try to connect with Doña Vera, in the hopes of learning more about his grandfather. Soon Eric is off on his own, traveling to the Sierra in hopes of learning more about his Cornish grandmother..."

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zigzag_Way

Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Paperback 2004.

182 pages.

Some wear, but basically good condition.

The cost of shipping is $5.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

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