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Alden Jones
Memoir & Adventure
Alden Jones is an American writer and educator whose memoirs explore travel, personal evolution, and the experience of being an outsider.
Biography
Alden Jones, born in 1972, is an American writer and educator. Her books include the memoirs The Blind Masseuse (2013) and The Wanting Was a Wilderness (2020), as well as the short story collection Unaccompanied Minors (2014). The Blind Masseuse was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogal Award for the Art of the Essay.
In The Blind Masseuse, Jones draws on her experiences as a young American traveling abroad, including journeys to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, and Egypt, and around the world by ship. She examines the desire to seek unfamiliar places, her position as a temporary outsider, and the relationship between travel and personal change.
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Books by Alden Jones
The blind masseuse
The Blind Masseuse follows Jones’s international travels while examining what draws people abroad and what it means to be an outsider in another culture. Through accounts of adventure and personal change, the memoir considers whether there is a right or wrong way to travel.