Walking with Sam, Andrew McCarthy
Walking with Sam, Andrew McCarthy
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Walking with Sam
A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

Bestseller

Author: Andrew McCarthy

Narrator: Andrew McCarthy

Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2023

Synopsis

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.

About Andrew McCarthy

Since starring in movies like Pretty in Pink, St Elmo’s Fire, and Less Than Zero, Andrew McCarthy has become a director, an award-winning travel writer, and a bestselling author. He has directed more than eighty hours of television, including Orange Is the New Black, The Blacklist, Gossip Girl, and many others. For a dozen years he served as editor at large at National Geographic Traveler and his award-winning travel writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Atlantic and TIME. He is the author of The Longest Way Home, Just Fly Away, and most recently a memoir, Brat, all New York Times bestsellers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on March 04, 2024

Love, love, love this book!! I have read at least ten memoirs about walking and hiking the Camino de Santiago and this is one of my favorites. I bought it at a bookstore yesterday and read it quickly. Author, Andrew McCarthy, invites his nineteen-year-old son, Sam, to walk the 500 mile Camino with hi......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on May 25, 2023

Five things about Walking With Sam by Andrew McCarthy 📚📚📚 1. Oofta…Sam sounds like a navel gazing toddler with a nicotine addiction and an inability to focus. I doubt he is any of this in great measure but he’s written this way in the book. If I were Sam I’d be pretty uncomfortable with this depictio......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka on October 13, 2023

I did not read this book because I am religious.This was another fun travel log. I had never heard of Andrew McCarthy or his son Sam. They are both actors. The Father played in movies such as Pretty In pink And Weekend with Bernie. I saw both movies but I swear I never saw Andrew McCarthy and either......more

Goodreads review by Lance on May 23, 2023

I stumbled upon Andrew's Instagram feed while he was journeying with Sam in the summer of 2021, and I followed their progress all the way across Spain. Cristina and I spent over two years during the COVID pandemic preparing to walk our first Camino, which we completed in the Fall of 2022. I read man......more

Goodreads review by Lori on May 15, 2023

What I enjoyed about the book was how well it was written and many historical insights about the Camino de Santiago. I appreciated Andre McCarthy’s honest revelations and commentary about his relationship with Sam, his son. What annoyed me most was his son. Sam seemed spoiled and disrespectful to hi......more

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