Recommendation: Notes on a Foreign Country

I have not yet read this, but when I finish one of the 6 books I'm currently reading I intend to check out Suzy Hansen's Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World.
Hansen is a contributor to the Times Magazine and after the attacks of September 11th, she moved to Istanbul. She travels to Egypt, Greece, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Mississippi Delta. Using the complex histories and current situations in these places, Hansen interrogates her native country, the United States.

One of the major questions of Hansen's book, is the ways in which the United States fails to interrogate itself and its role in shaping the Middle East. Notes on a Foreign Country is an act of self-questioning and of grappling with the ways in which the United States perceives itself and the way the country actually is. For example, the United States doesn't consider itself and empire, but Hansen argues that it is.

I stumbled across Hansen's book in the New York Times Book Review and I've included the link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/books/review/notes-on-a-foreign-country-suzy-hansen.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbook-review&action=click&contentCollection=review&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=13&pgtype=sectionfront

The Times Review' is much better than my brief synopsis.