Amy Elizabeth Smith embarked on a yearlong Latin American trip, a traveling reading club with Jane, with a bag full of Jane Austen novels in Spanish. She collected book-loving new friends— taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians— in six distinct, unforgettable nations to read Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.

Whether sipping rooster beer with Guatemalans, watching a Mexican boxing match, feeding a horde of gentle iguanas with Ecuadorean youngsters, or tangling with contentious booksellers in Argentina, Amy came to discover what Austen understood all along: we're not always speaking the same language— even when we're speaking the same language. But, with true Austen instinct, she could tell when she'd discovered her own Senor Darcy. 

All Roads Lead to Austen celebrates the best of what we love about books and revels in the pleasure of sharing a good book-- with good friends. This book features Amy, the author, traveling through different Latin American countries to express her love for Jane Austen and her novels (and her films) through hosting a book club.

It felt like nothing occurred, yet there was a lot in this book. This made sense because it merely shows a brief peek of Amy's existence. As someone who dislikes book clubs (I despise being told what to read), this book persuaded me to join one.