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Wander the Rainbow: A true story of a living liver donation, an epic journey around the world, and a gay man's search for himself

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Absolutely captivating!

You'll be surprised at how large the world is when you start, how intimate it feels as you read, and how small you feel when you're done.
Will defiantly try and bite you with the travel-bug! :)

Highly recommended!

Jedeikin, David. "Wander the Rainbow: A true story of a living liver donation, an epic journey around the world, and a gay man's search for himself", Holistic Ideas Press, 2010.

The Title Tells It All

Amos Lassen

David Jedeikin's partner became critically ill and it appears that he could only be saved would be to find a living liver donor. David volunteered but this act of sharing does not save their relationship and it ended soon afterwards. Jedeikin finds himself struggling to understand and he decides to leave everything behind and takes off on a seven month journey around the world. He visits six continents and he relates his experiences to us. He visits the gay hotspots, finds his family history in Latvia, China, Italy, Israel and South Africa. He learns of the Jews in Rome and Prague, meets a bartender in Berlin and falls in love, meets a Brazilian in Tokyo as well as an exchange student in Beijing and so much more. He learns that being conventional is not always the best way to live and that there is so much to life while traveling.
This is a many layered true story of a man who takes a journey around the world and it is filled with detail, so much so that the reader feels as if he is actually with the author on his travels. We better understand the desire to grow and it certainly made me think.
Being Jewish myself and having travelled to all of the same places, I naturally had a sense of identfication with the book.
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