The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down

The New York Times Book Review…this engaging debut…isn't a brash, boorish, "don't go loving me babe because the road's my middle name" memoir of masculine bravado. It's a good book about a good man who's trying good and hard to figure himself out…While wandering the jungles and rivers and village markets and mountains and cities, which he renders in vibrant and elegant prose, McCarthy delves into the things that have both made him the man he is and kept him from becoming the man he wants to be.
—Cheryl Strayed




Publishers WeeklyIn this carefully modulated record of self-discovery, actor turned travel writer McCarthy finds in far-flung, solitary sojourns from Patagonia to Kilimanjaro a way finally to commit to marrying his longtime Irish girlfriend.