Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
Author: McCarthy, Andrew
Publication Date: 05/09/2023
Format: Hardcover
An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir followingĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.
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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.
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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. Ā 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. Ā Walking With SamĀ captures this intimate, candid and hopeful expedition as the father son duo travel across the country and towards one another.