The Global Soul: Travel, Jet Lag & Shopping Malls - Finding Home in a Connected World | Perfect for Travelers, Expats & Digital Nomads

**Iyer, Pico. The Global Soul****(Vintage Departures)** . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.FIRST VINTAGE DEPARTURES EDITION, MARCH 2001Homelessness takes on a different meaning in Global Soul. Throughout his 2001 Novel, Pico describes the flux of his life journey, as having never felt rooted to a singular physical locale. In the first chapter, this sense of lack of belonging  is further magnified by an event that causes him to lose his worldly possessions. The novel chronicles the author's experience of living amid multiple places at one time and the world globalization and evolving tech landscape that makes this possible. While fantastic and insightful, Pico 's description of his life embodies a feeling of loneliness within a crowd, and the possibility of homelessness within a family. Each chapter begins with a poignant quote setting one up for the experiences and meaning of the words that follow.I  recommend this book to anyone who has traversed the world and knows the disorientation of space and time, as well as to those who may have never ventured beyond their own neighborhoods yet remain fixated on the question “Where is my home"? In his exploration of the topic, Pico shares an almost poetic outlook and experience that binds us Global Souls together in a place where heart and experience are the basis for home more than any locale or geographic landmark.