<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/07/31/books-07_wide-250070fb6674effb26e28d1f789460d19148e49b.jpg' alt='Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode.‘/>
Summer is a time when many Americans are taking off from work and setting their sights on far-off vacation destinations: tropical beaches, fairy-tale cities, sun-drenched countrysides. But in her book Airplane Mode, the reluctant travel writer Shahnaz Habib warns of recklessly embracing what she calls “passport privilege,” — and how that can skew peoples’ images of what the world is and who it belongs to.
