Everywhere I Go is a coming-of-age memoir that follows two parallel timelines: One spans the decade of Ahna Ell's 20s, as she falls in love and tours the country in a communal folk band. The journey of Ahna and these earnest idealists sees them through mundane jobs, pull-over-our-song-is-on-the-radio screaming celebrations, sold out shows, natural disasters, and natural drifts. From the back bench of a 15 passenger van, Ahna determinedly leans into reality as it confronts her hopes and ideals, until she must discover if they can entwine at all. 

The other timeline traces Ahna's 19th year, when, after suffering a mental health crisis, she leaves university to roam the country by working as a farmhand. She hitchhikes, standbys, and Craigslist ride-shares her way into the lives of generous hosts, from religious separatist communities to NPR correspondents, never quite finding home.

With her 30th birthday looming, Ahna lands on nightshift, living in a rural motel, and she finds herself again on the edge of an unfamiliar threshold.

Readers will get to know Ahna as earnest, full of wanderlust, and constantly gleaning messages from her experiences. Everywhere I Go is a spiritual, musical, agrarian, adventurous tale, as it traces one young poets’s wandering and homecoming through her unflinching embrace of every ending—and the enduring love that shapes her belonging.

For fans of: Just Kids by Patti Smith; The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day; On Being with Krista Tippett; Almost Famous; Moulin Rouge; The Goonies