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Summary Sentence: The history of passports, smuggling fried chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security
Full Summary: The history of passports, smuggling fried chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security — it’s all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga of how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey. 17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland, Mexico, and more. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Thaddeus Phillips (Red-Eye to Havre de Grace) manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.
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