Brianna Madia: Homesick Nomad
NYT bestselling nature writer Brianna Madia discusses balancing wilderness independence with domestic commitment, drawn from years living in a van across the West.
Why we picked this
The tension between freedom and rootedness is one of the West's oldest stories — Madia writes about it from the inside, with the honesty of someone who has actually lived in a van for years.
Brianna Madia spent years traveling the American West in an old Ford van, and her writing captures both the romance and the reality of that life. Homesick Nomad: Settling into an Untethered Life explores what happens when the pull of wilderness independence meets the desire for something more permanent.
A two-time New York Times bestselling author, Madia writes about landscape and identity with the kind of specificity that comes from having actually slept under the stars in the places she describes. This is a memoir for anyone who has ever felt torn between adventure and belonging.