Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
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An intimate, funny, and poignant New York Times bestseling travel memoir following award-winning author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago. Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed an unforgiving landscape, having more honest conversations in five weeks than they'd had in the preceding two decades. Discussions of divorce, the trauma of school, McCarthy's difficult relationship with his own father, fame, and Flaming Hot Cheetos threatened to either derail their relationship or cement it. Walking With Sam captures this intimate, candid and hopeful expedition as the father son duo travel across the country and towards one another.
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago. Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed an unforgiving landscape, having more honest conversations in five weeks than they'd had in the preceding two decades. Discussions of divorce, the trauma of school, McCarthy's difficult relationship with his own father, fame, and Flaming Hot Cheetos threatened to either derail their relationship or cement it. Walking With Sam captures this intimate, candid and hopeful expedition as the father son duo travel across the country and towards one another.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1538709201
ISBN13:9781538709207
Release Date:May 2023
Publisher:Grand Central Publishing
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Modern Father and Son Dialogue through an adventure.
Published by Zaxary , 7 months ago
Wonderfully written adventure for a father reaching out to a son, bombarded and enduring the Western Cultural paradigm.
Andrew had a unique career and fatherhood. However, enduring the elements where none of that is of consequence, he writes beautiful and humorous thoughts and dialogues while walking the Santiago de Compestella (St. Johns Way)—a long, long walk.
I did this adventure with my wife and have plans to do it with my children.
Read it! It will make you want to take a long walk where you and another person are alone with your thoughts.
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