Few roads have made people dream as much as Route 66, which crosses the USA from east to west, from Chicago to Santa Monica, and has inspired generations of writers such as Jack Kerouac,

whose novel 'On the road' (1957) became a reference of the 'beat' generation. With an external and current look, we now travel those mythical kilometers with Jordi Galli (Barcelona, 1965), translator, bookseller and editor who debuts with a travel story, 'La ruta invisible.'

Galli shares his travel experience in this book that does is not even 200 pages long without falling into autofiction, nor in the wise tone of a travel guide, focused on listing the places to visit: we only know that he travels with his partner (he often refers to "we") and that, rather than informing, he tries to decipher the signs of this route that he studies with curious and critical eyes.

Reviewed by Valèria Gaillard for El Periódico