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Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite
Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner is a work of non-fiction in the memoir and cross-cultural writing subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Jamie Bowman. In this revealing and fascinating work, we discover what it means to work in legal consultancy on an international scale. Attorney Jamie Bowman’s amazing life experiences have taken her to some of the world’s most dangerous and complex countries, from Kosovo to Rwanda and everywhere in between. This memoir offers tales from some of the most unusual cross-cultural experiences, but also a deep insight into the dedicated work Bowman does in putting a stop to corruption and encouraging reform.
Jamie Bowman holds nothing back in this detailed, heartfelt, and emotionally open memoir about the thrilling and rewarding – but also sometimes nerve-wracking – world of consultancy. The work has a really clear focus on bringing together the culture shock elements of an American working abroad with the challenges of being an attorney, and especially a female attorney, in places where sentiments of freedom, justice, and honesty are not as we expect them to be in the western world. I enjoyed the fact that we also saw the softer side of Jamie’s life with her supportive partner and had an insight into how she decompresses to put such stressful situations aside when she returns to ‘normality’ in her life. I would highly recommend Bike Riding in Kabul as a must-read to fans of work-based memoirs, but also those who are fascinated by international legal issues and cross-cultural viewpoints on the modern USA.
