Published in 2023
288 pages
Originally from Colombia, Nikki Vargas is the author of Call You When I Land, named one of the best women’s memoirs of the year by Glamour Magazine, selected as a Staff Pick by Apple Books, and recommended by Forbes, Kirkus Reviews, Sunset Magazine, Zibby’s, Goodreads, and more.
Vargas is also the co-author of Wanderess (2022), a women’s travel guide available in stores now. In addition, she is a Senior Editor for Fodor’s Travel and the founder of Unearth Women, a women’s travel publication. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Good Morning America, CNN, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, and more. Beyond her writing, Nikki has spoken at various travel conferences, including the Women’s Travel Fest, Women in Travel Summit, Latino Travel Fest, and more.
What is this book about?
Call You When I Land is a soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and Fodor’s Travel Senior Editor, Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the internationally-sold women’s travel magazine, Unearth Women.
At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki. She’d settled in New York City, had landed in a promising advertising career, and was newly engaged to her college sweetheart. But between corporate happy hours and wedding dress fittings, she couldn’t shake a deep underlying sense of imposter syndrome, a voice telling her that she was rocketing towards a future that didn’t look like her. And so, she bought a plane ticket.
Taking her from the street food stalls of Vietnam to the cascading waterfalls of Argentina, Nikki whisks readers away on a coming-of-age journey set against the backdrop of stunning locales. Whether chasing an unlikely career dream around the globe, investigating a mysterious unsolved murder in her family, grappling with heartbreak, navigating new love, or learning how to celebrate success and recover from failure—Call You When I Land is a memoir that promises to both inspire and transport readers.
Told in transporting detail and candid reflections, Call You When I Land takes the familiar story of a woman going abroad to find herself and turns it on its head, as the act of traveling becomes, for Nikki, a life-transforming endeavor—and ultimately a tool to champion women’s voices across the world.
