Driving to Detroit: Memoirs of a Fast Woman

by Lesley Hazleton

One woman's exploration of America's love for the car. Driving "the long way round" from Seattle to the Detroit auto show, Hazleton visits unmapped regions - places of pilgrimage for the car-crazy - learning en route not only about the peculiar passions of car lovers but also about herself.

Paperback

First published October 2, 1998

About the author

1. My new book 'Jezebel: the untold story of the bible's harlot queen' is just out (Doubleday). Yes, she was framed. No, she was no harlot. Yes, she was magnificent.

2. Won't bore you with the whole bio -- it's in the 'About the Author' page on www.jezebelbook.com. For now: British-born, lived for a long time in the Middle East, now live in the very Pacific Northwest.

3. Favorite drink is grappa.
Natural habitat is high desert (which must have something to do with my living on a houseboat/floating home at sea level...)
Am gnostic agnostic (and yes, will write a long piece/short book explaining that one day).

Reviews

[Darla Ebert]

An unusual book from several vantage points. The author has an approach that is both compelling and frustrating. She lapses into a poetic way of viewing scenes along the way as she travels throughout the mid-west in an eye-catching vehicle heading to an auto show in Detroit.

[Geri]

I read this book at least six years ago. Recently realized I never wrote a review.
I remember really enjoying the book.
If you like books about road trips and cars you should try this book.

[John]

Author writes well, and seems to have led an interesting life, but I had trouble getting through the automotive-based details that form the basis of the book, which I'd thought would be a more straightforward memoir.

[Ram]

Wonderful viewpoint of America by a British migrant with eclectic accomplishments and an unusual career. Many pasages make you ponder about yourself, and at the end, makes you want to read her other works.

[Cadillacrazy]

Road trip through Western US