Since Marco Polo`s explorations & Montaigne`s travels, a lively dialogue has persisted about travel`s pros & cons -- its excitement, novelties, perils, & misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises serious & amusing questions.” Not Now, Voyager” takes us on a voyage of self-discovery as the author traces how travel shaped her. She visits Miami Beach as an adolescent with an aunt & uncle & confronts the sensation of not belonging; she goes to Rome as a young woman & ponders the difference between ignorance & innocence; she ventures to Jamaica & witnesses acute political & social unrest; & she takes a family road trip to Montreal & watches her daughters come to their own startling realizations. In this memoir, Schwartz`s history takes on new shapes, & her feelings about travel change as she does. Her story exemplifies a mode of travel: the mind on a journey, pausing, sometimes by design, sometimes by serendipity, lingering, backtracking, but always on the move.