Riffs: Sara Bongiorni, author, A Year Without Made in China

“Nothing captures me as a reader like true adventure stories. Last year I read The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. My friend and Advocate reporter Chris Gautreau recommended it to me and promised me that I’d be blown away. I was. I have always been a fan of Roosevelt, but this story about uncharted adventure in the wilds of South America gave me new insights into what an exceptional person he was in so many ways. And I could not put the book down. I mean, I could not get myself to go to bed while I was reading it. I used to think books did not get any better than Into the Wild, but for me this surpassed even that.”