
Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
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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.
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Publish Date: May 9th, 2023
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9781538709207
- Categories: • Personal Memoirs• Essays & Travelogues• Rich & Famous
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"It’s a good setup for a travel memoir, ripe with opportunities to revisit the past and measure his own faded youth against the full flourishing of his son’s young adulthood. And McCarthy… makes the most of them."

Andrew McCarthy is an actor, travel writer, and tv director.
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"The Camino de Santiago is an 800-km walking route across northern Spain, which began as a Catholic pilgrimage in honour of St. James…For McCarthy it was a chance to spend time with Sam… "The Camino … gave me the greatest luxury you have with adult children — which is time.""