It's taken me about 6 months to finish this book... there was a long break in between starting and finishing due to general motherhood fatigue. I had a day at my mother in laws house where I had help with my child and devoured the rest. There was a strange serendipity with how I came across this book in the first place. I brought home a book called "More Spaghetti, I Say!" by the author, from the free book cart. It's a very funny read about a monkey who is obsessed with spaghetti and her poor brother/friend who wants to play, but she's too busy eating spaghetti. I wanted to see if there were other books by the author in my library to read to my daughter, and came across her website and read about her life as a nomad and was totally intrigued. The book was available for checkout at my library branch which was serendipitous enough, but as I brought it back to the desk from the shelf, I noticed a copy on the donated books cart, along with "Female Nomad and Friends"! So $4.00 to the Friends of the Library later, I now owned 3 books by Rita Gelman.... and would not suffer any overdue library book notices, which turned out to be helpful since it took me 6 months to finish. Suffice it to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the adventure and look forward to reading "Female Nomad and Friends" soon.