The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost

The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost
is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed.

A Bantam Books Trade Paperback Original

Copyright © 2011 by Rachel Friedman

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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“The Suicide Song,” lyrics and music composed by Michal Imielski.
Produced by Michal Imielski.

Photographs are from the author's collection.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Friedman, Rachel.
The good girl's guide to getting lost : a memoir of three continents, two friends, and one unexpected adventure / Rachel Friedman.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-553-90820-6
1. Friedman, Rachel.   2. Women travelers—Biography.   3. Voyages and travels.   I. Title.
G226.F75A3 2011
910.4—dc22        2010052236

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Cover design: Melissa Erder
Cover photographs (top to bottom): Purestock/Getty Images (Sydney), Merten/Taxi/Getty images (cityscape), Alvis Upitis/Brand X/Getty Images (Machu Picchu)

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For my parents, my support
For Carly, my guide
For Martyn, my home

How do we go about turning into
the people we are meant to become?
—LUCY GREALY,
Autobiography of a Face

Contents
Author's Note

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