Walking to Listen - 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time Forsthoefel Andrew Paperback
Walking to Listen - 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time Forsthoefel Andrew Paperback A memoir of one young man's coming-of-age on a cross-country trek--told through the stories of the…
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Walking to Listen - 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time Forsthoefel Andrew Paperback
A memoir of one young man's coming-of-age on a cross-country trek--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the highways of America.At twenty-three, Andrew Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read walking to listen. So he decided he'd walk. He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how.
It would be a cross-country quest for guidance, and everyone he met would be his guide.Walking toward the Pacific, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. And listen. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.
But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding