![]() ![]() “I grew up in the 90s in Jakarta as a third-world teenager, and for me, travel was unattainable,” she says. Paramaditha’s current location is Sydney, where she lives with her partner and daughter and lectures on media and film studies at Macquarie University. We’re walking on a map that already exists and our location on the map has been decided.” In order to fit into certain ideals, you need to mutilate yourself “Travelling is always about making choices, but at the same time your choices are made for you, structured by many things: nationality, class, gender, what we can access and what not. ![]() “We are always haunted by the question of not choosing the other path, the road not taken,” Paramaditha says. The Wandering is a novel more interested in the offcuts, in what – and who – get left behind in stories of travel. ![]()
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