An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development by Trude Klevan & Alec Grant. Abingdon, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 142 pages, $154.84 (hardcover)

To appreciate the book An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development it may be helpful to first understand what the book is not. This text is not an instruction manual about how to become a researcher or autoethnographer nor is it a methodological guide or a research reference book. By using their own personal stories, the authors intend this text to “serve as an invitation to open up for possible connections and a curiosity” (p. xxiv) regarding autoethnography and qualitative inquiry as a discipline, respected methodology, and as a source for systemic justice. The authors Alec Grant, critical autoethnographic researcher from the United Kingdom, and Trude Klevan, then PhD Candidate and social work practitioner from Norway, engage in dialogic autoethnographic discourse, an approach that comprises of storytelling and reflec-tive conversations through email correspondences. The text examines Klevan’s progression through her PhD thesis as well as Klevan’s and Grant’s personal and professional friendship. The authors develop their well-constructed positions by drawing from varied pieces in the domains of philosophy, methodology, mental health practices…even art and poetry.