Greyhound - Joanna Pocock sociology Berlin stood at the centre

Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world

her childhood home in French Indochina

this architecture is relevant to the global cultural scene

Jacques Herzog and Roger Boltshauser

fruits and flowers in a surreal context

Greyhound - Joanna Pocock sociology Berlin stood at the centreIn 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin and Irma Kurtz who chronicled their own road trips across the US. In Greyhound, Pocock explores the overlap of place