*Sun Sentinel review on author, Peng Shepherd*

Before the GPS and smart phones made finding directions easier, paper maps provided the way, promising not only accuracy but also pinpointing unfamiliar places, bits of history and roads less traveled. Electronic maps tell where to turn and when, but they sacrifice the soul and beauty of paper maps. Antique maps guided sailors, often showing where sea monsters might reside. Maps — free or inexpensive —available at gas stations got people where they were going, though once unfolded they were near impossible to refold.

“Cartography, at its heart, was about defining one’s place in the world by creating charts and measurements…. that everything could be mapped . . . and thereby understood,” says Nell Young, the heroine of “The Cartographers,” the near perfect second novel by Peng Shepherd.

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