Walking with Sam

By Andrew McCarthy,

Book cover of Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

Book description

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A BARNES & NOBLE BEST BOOK OF 2023

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling 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…

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1 author picked Walking with Sam as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I’m a big reader of memoirs… but I tend to steer clear of celebrity ones. I fell into this memoir written by a “Brat Packer” because the Camino is a dream of mine ---I read anything related. McCarthy does an excellent job at conveying this setting, towns and countryside alike.

Also, like the author, I grab opportunities to spend time with my sons, who are a similar age to Sam, his son. As the years go by, opportunities diminish…. stolen moments become more treasured. This aspect of the memoir was so poignant that I didn’t want it to end and…

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