by Timothy Egan
First published 2019
A man sets out on a solo pilgrimage across Europe, walking from Canterbury to Rome. As he trudges through the rain and snow, memories of his troubled past weigh him down. The open road offers no refuge from his grief and guilt. Yet with each step, he feels a glimmer of hope that the journey may help him make peace with the ghosts that haunt him. An intimate portrait of one man's reckoning with his own mortality.
Genres: literary-fiction, historical-fiction, travel, adventure, contemporary, memoir
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: redemption-arc, self-discovery, spiritual-journey
384 pages · Paperback · Penguin Books
Content warnings: mental-illness