Karen Elson: The Ghost Who Rocks
Ken Scrudato, BlackBook, May 2010
IT'S HARDLY likely you've ever had occasion to look it up, but there are, to be sure, no direct flights from Manchester to Nashville. But that it took Karen Elson ten years to get from the city of her birth to the one she now calls home might just make her something of a modern day Odysseus.
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