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Review: How To Be Alone: An 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail by Nicole Antoinette

Apr 27, 2023
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Reading Nicole Antoinette’s book How To Be Alone: An 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail felt more like getting reacquainted with an old, familiar story than a new one.

That’s in part because the book draws heavily on the Instagram captions Antoinette wrote from the trail. Those posts—rich in detail, fresh, open, immediate—had a profound effect on me. The…

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