{"product_id":"airplane-mode-isbn-9781646220151","title":"Airplane Mode","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the New American Voices Award\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, \u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode,\u003c\/i\u003e asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe color of one’s skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel.  For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this insightful debut parses who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThreaded through the book are inviting and playful analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artifacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism—but as any traveler knows, travel is more than that. As an immigrant whose loved ones live across continents, Habib takes a deeply curious and joyful look at a troubled and beloved activity.\u003cb\u003eWinner of the New American Voices Award\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence\u003cbr\u003eAmazon, A Best Biographies \u0026amp; Memoirs of the Month\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Book of 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Now lands \u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode\u003c\/i\u003e, by Shahnaz Habib, a lively and, yes, wide-ranging book that interrogates some of the pastime’s conventions and most prominent chroniclers . . . Habib [is a] ruthlessly honest and funny observer.\" —Alexandra Jacobs,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Should be required reading.\" —Bethanne Patrick, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The frequent fliers in your life are likely to be enlightened and entertained by United Nations consultant Habib’s witty look at travel and tourism.\" —Michael Schaub, \u003ci\u003eThe OC Register\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Insightful, funny, moving, politically astute . . . Habib’s book is rich and her narrative voice analytic, historically informed, and passionate . . . Habib compels us to engage in the politics of travel.\" —Nalini Iyer,\u003ci\u003e International Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thoughtful and thought-provoking . . . It’s both a welcome addition to the existing library of literature on travel and a resonant critique of much of it—and it may well leave you thinking more about your own experiences making your way across the globe.\" —Tobias Carroll, \u003ci\u003eInsideHook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Habib is great at establishing a sense of place and crafting damn good sentences.\" —Robyn Smith, \u003ci\u003eBust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode \u003c\/i\u003ecan make anyone’s imagination take flight.\" —Caroline Leavitt, \u003ci\u003eThe Ethel \u003c\/i\u003e(AARP)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An enlightening and entertaining debut essay collection.\" —Lauren Kiniry, \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A memorable and unique travelogue that explores what it means to explore the world through the lens of colonialism, capitalism, and climate change.\" —Adam Vitcavage, \u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Book of 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode\u003c\/i\u003e, brimming with curious travel facts filtered through Habib's witty, conversational style, is an insightful literary companion for explorers of all stripes.\" —Shahina Piyarali, \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With a perceptive eye and in fluid, intimate prose, Habib nimbly demonstrates how 'the more we dig into the history of modern tourism, the more the pickax hits the underground cable connection with colonialism.' Jet-setters will be captivated and challenged.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Habib’s analytical tour of travel’s history invites readers to engage more thoughtfully with their journeys and to consider who is and is not able to take part in these adventures.\" —Carla Jean Whitley, \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A timely reframing of what it means to travel.\" —Alan Moores, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A wide-ranging, politically acute inquiry into the history of travel and tourism . . . Enlightening and entertaining.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This work shows that militourism, colonialism, capitalism, and climate change shape how and where people travel. With a sharp wit, the book unearths travel truths with a humorous bent that delivers several laugh out loud moments . . . Fans of travel writing, history, and travel writing itself will find this quick read a delightful, eye-opening one that fuels more insatiable wanderlust.\" —Holly Hebert, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shahnaz Habib has written a travel book like few others, weaving her strong opinions about tourism’s consumerism, environmental degradation and condescension into a memoir of her own travels. Alternately jolting and insightful, \u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode \u003c\/i\u003eraises many critical questions about how and why we travel.\" —Elizabeth Becker, author of \u003ci\u003eOverbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I read \u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode \u003c\/i\u003ewhile traveling for work and was thrilled to find it reignited my love for travel memoirs. In interweaving the personal and political stakes of traveling as a migrant, Habib gives us an urgently needed reimagining of the genre.\" —Jessica J. Lee, author of \u003ci\u003eTwo Trees Make a Forest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating and comprehensive history of travel. Part cultural study and part personal account, it engages with the troubling legacy of colonialism and the particular experiences of brown and Black people traveling. I know of no other book like it, a thrilling read that feels like a whole education in the history of why and how bodies moved across this not-so-lonely planet.\" —Kazim Ali, author of \u003ci\u003eNorthern Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nuanced and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode \u003c\/i\u003eis an exemplary piece of work that asks important questions about our current concept of 'travel writing.' Shahnaz Habib expertly blends personal anecdotes with external research to interrogate typically romanticized ideas of travel and immigration, and how our personal definitions of those subjects change depending on, amongst other factors, the passports we are born holding. I will be recommending this book to anyone I know who's ever set foot on a plane, in another country, or has dreamt of a life of 'traveling'—so essentially, everybody.\" —Pyae Moe Thet War, author of \u003ci\u003eYou've Changed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shahnaz Habib’s \u003ci\u003eAirplane Mode\u003c\/i\u003e incisively explores, and exposes, the assumptions and prejudices that underpin so much of documentary and travel writing. This elegantly written, erudite collection acts not only as a much-needed corrective but as an exemplar of what the travel essay can truly accomplish.\" —Hasanthika Sirisena, author of \u003ci\u003eDark Tourist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating, wide-ranging and insightful travelogue that poses some of the biggest questions of all: who gets to travel and what is it that makes us so keen to travel in the first place?\" —Annabel Abbs, author of \u003ci\u003eWindswept\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHAHNAZ HABIB\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator based in Brooklyn. 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