An Inside Passage
An Inside Passage (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
by Kurt Caswell
Kurt Caswell’s An Inside Passage manages to express at once a longing for home and a craving for movement, an earnest spiritual search with a self-aware skepticism. Caswell offers brief anecdotes of various trips to far-flung lands – Japan, India, the Philippines, Alaska, Death Valley – that reflect deeply on each place and have, appropriately for his reflective purpose, none of the self-satisfied ambition or strutting adventurousness of a typical memoir essay or travelogue.
Caswell begins this slim volume in his …
