peregrination

A jaunt to the Waffle House across the street required a peregrination across a hot ocean of tarmac.

White’s peregrinations pay off as he gradually discovers a few mid-ranking U.S. diplomats and military officers — a “gang of mutineers,” he calls them — willing to go behind the ambassador’s back and do the right thing.

This extravagant peregrination of a novel wanders back and forth through three decades of cruelty, violence, corruption, blackmail, debauchery and lust for revenge.

Finding community and disagreement in a space in which talking to strangers might be more welcome than at, say, my local coffee shop is particularly alluring peregrination.

With Bernal's Ivy League pedigree and his peregrinations throughout the Western Hemisphere, his saga also offers disturbing new context to the widespread but little-noticed phenomenon of abusive coaches who globetrot their way out of trouble.