Kitten Heels in Kathmandu: Adventures of a Female Vagabond

About Mary’s writing:

"Wise, warm, witty, it ripples with rude, righteous fun and at the same time offers profound insights into the nature of creative expression. It resonates from top to bottom with deep and abiding humanity. Here is an irresistible book jam-packed with practicality and spirituality alike. It is essential reading for all true souls of light who love literature."
- Prof. Richard Walter, Screenwriting Chairman, UCLA Film School

“A blast of fresh air, a more in-your-face Erma Bombeck”
- San Francisco Chronicle

“Candid and edgy”
- San Jose Mercury News

“Along the lines of Virginia Woolf but in an irreverent voice akin to Annie Lamott.”
- Palo Alto Weekly

“She talks about things that I wouldn’t tell my best friend.”
- Mary’s Mom

Want to quit your job and travel the world? It costs less than it does to stay home working! Mary, photographer and solo mom, newly minted as a lone warrior after raising her son, cuts loose from the USA, sells everything she owns, and takes us on a water slide ride from the rooftop of the world in Nepal, to photographing the Dalai Lama in India, and riding elephants bareback in the Himalayas. Across 27 countries by plane, boat, train, bus, motorbike and rickshaw she discovers that courage takes practice and that living out loud and laughing is the prescription to life’s monsoons.

Her new title? CEO of fun.

With no big bank account, and even less electricity she hitchhikes in the Himalayas, teaches kundalini yoga to Buddhist nuns, surfs in Peru, salsa dances with babies in Colombia, lives in a temple in Thailand being guided by a meditation master and learns how to not worry and fall in love with life.

Like a martini mixed with metaphysics, this gutsy adventure memoir explores the good, the bad, and the provocative and peopled mosaic of crossing international borders on foot, riding on the rooftop of a bus, being besieged by bedbugs and beef in Argentina and blessed by holy men.

With an unusual combination of spiritual panache and deadpan hilarity Kitten Heels captivates with a sense of wonder, sheer delight, and a big dose of courage. And when you’re skating on thin ice you might as well tap dance.

Full Color Photo Edition, jam-packed with stunning images from Asia, South America and Central America.

“Along the lines of Virginia Woolf but in an irreverent voice akin to Annie Lamott.”
- Palo Alto Weekly

“Raw emotion, a good read.”
- Library Journal

This is Mary's 3rd book. See Everyday Naked, her first book here on Amazon.
www.amazon.ca/Everyday-Naked-Mary-Bartnikowski/dp/0890878765