Torre DeRoche is the author of two travel memoirs, Love with a Chance of Drowning (2013) and The Worrier’s Guide to the End of the World (due out September 2017). She has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian Travel, The Sydney Morning Herald, Emirates, and two Lonely Planet anthologies.
From as early as I can remember, my mother would say to me, “You’re not just a pretty face, Chicken Lips.” I was always utterly heartbroken to hear this. “But I am a pretty face,” I’d whimper back, my bottom lip aquiver. Being only three, I didn’t understand …
© Torre DeRoche 2024. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce any material from this blog without written permission.