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Walking to Listen
4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Taschenbuch von Andrew Forsthoefel
Sprache: Englisch

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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. He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided he'd walk. And listen. 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. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn't know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself.

Ultimately, it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself at the most human level.
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. He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided he'd walk. And listen. 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. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn't know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself.

Ultimately, it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself at the most human level.
Über den Autor
Andrew Forsthoefel
Zusammenfassung
A sure bet for college audiences; a shoe-in for First Year Reads -- also makes a great graduation gift.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781632867018
ISBN-10: 163286701X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Forsthoefel, Andrew
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Maße: 208 x 136 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew Forsthoefel
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.07.2018
Gewicht: 0,409 kg
Artikel-ID: 109462282
Über den Autor
Andrew Forsthoefel
Zusammenfassung
A sure bet for college audiences; a shoe-in for First Year Reads -- also makes a great graduation gift.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781632867018
ISBN-10: 163286701X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Forsthoefel, Andrew
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Maße: 208 x 136 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew Forsthoefel
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.07.2018
Gewicht: 0,409 kg
Artikel-ID: 109462282
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