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Andrew McCarthy’s The Longest Way Home comes out on September 18, 2012. He is an editor-at-large with National Geographic Traveler, and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. The Society of American Travel Writers named him the Travel Journalist of the Year in 2010 and presented him their Grand Award in 2011. Andrew made his acting debut at nineteen and has appeared in dozens of films, including Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire, and The Joy Luck Club. He lives in New York.
Elizabeth Gilbert, a woman who knows a thing or two about memoirs had this to say about The Longest Way Home.
“McCarthy ponders some of the biggest and most frightening questions surrounding intimacy: How does a loner connect? How does a traveler settle down? How do we merge into families without losing ourselves? The answer seems to be that all these things are impossible…and yet somehow we do it anyway. There is much to be learned, and much to be admired, in this elegant, thoughtful story.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
