Experimental Blog #46

Comments on "The Lost Girls" - Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C Corbett, and Amanda Pressner

Before the table of contents and the regular text of this book begins, there is a "Disclaimer." It says, in part, "we occasionally merged characters, reordered events," and "Many names ... have been changed and some of the identifying details altered..."
Whatever this means, one of the authors consistently seems more serious than the others. Another author seems prone to taking a variety of patience testing and provocative risks. The third author, perhaps, seems to sometimes alternate between her two companions. Also, at least 1 or 2 seemingly significant countries that they visited, Myanmar and, maybe, the United Arab Emirates, are completely omitted from the account of their travels.
Towards the last parts of the book the writing seems more hurried, or condensed, or perhaps, somewhat stylized.
However, seriously, overall, totally, their story of three American women, in their late 20s traveling around the world together for a whole year, is rather original and even quite thought provoking, seriously, totally.