But writing it in Atlin, the virtues of being a homebody became apparent to me. The book I wrote was very much fuelled by wanderlust. Who knew that Harris, whose Taylor Prize-winning work of literary non-fiction Lands of Lost Borders involves a bicycle trip along the fabled Silk Road, is a latent homebody? Stuck in Toronto on a stopover after a book tour in India, she spoke about the new book she’s working on, the adventurism she finds in self-isolation and her holy grail of life balance. “It’s a quirky, artsy place, with lovable people that are my friends and adopted family.” “I really wish I was home,” the author said, pining for her log cabin in the remote northern town of Atlin, B.C. But speaking to The Globe and Mail in Toronto recently, Kate Harris made it clear that she’d rather not be on the road at the moment. She describes herself as a “writer and wanderer.” Marco Polo is her hero and she once was obsessed with going to Mars.
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