Wonder/Wander:
522 Days in Latin America
The Journey: When I was 22 years old, I bought a one-way ticket to Guatemala. I wanted to live and work in communities as a traveler--not a tourist. I wanted to listen to and learn from the stories of real people and places. The result was a 522-day walkabout in Latin America. Click the subtab to see photos and read excerpts from the book.
The Book: From a baseball playing farmer in a Nicaraguan coffee field to an Andean wise man in search of an ancient path in Peru; from a dangerous marketplace in central Caracas to the pampas of Argentina haunted by gaucho ghosts – Wonder/Wander is an introspective, funny, and unsentimental true story that takes readers across a continent diverse with landscapes and characters, struggle and surprise.
Purchase Wonder/Wander in paperback on my lulu.com storefront or as an ebook here (note the ebook formatting is auto-generated and may not be consistent with the paperback).
Reader responses:
"I felt you were my guide to another world. I loved how openly you laid out your own filter before you told what you saw and experienced. It's one of the toughest kinds of writing to do because you have to bring your audience into a milieu that you know so well and is so foreign to your reader. Well done! I'll be recommending your book to anyone who will listen!" - Meryll Page, author of Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business
"The words are rooted to your feelings about the people and the place. The dust of it is on your tongue, as is the beautiful light of the landscape, and of course your love for both languages, which may be the most moving of all." - George Kalogeris, author of Camus: Carnets and Dialogos
"Un viaje contemplativo, tan consciente de la Vida, tan alejado del ruido que genera el miedo de los seres humanos a lo inexplicable y efímero de su existencia." - Diego Mansilla, Translator and Lecturer at Umass Boston
"I felt you were my guide to another world. I loved how openly you laid out your own filter before you told what you saw and experienced. It's one of the toughest kinds of writing to do because you have to bring your audience into a milieu that you know so well and is so foreign to your reader. Well done! I'll be recommending your book to anyone who will listen!" - Meryll Page, author of Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business
"The words are rooted to your feelings about the people and the place. The dust of it is on your tongue, as is the beautiful light of the landscape, and of course your love for both languages, which may be the most moving of all." - George Kalogeris, author of Camus: Carnets and Dialogos
"Un viaje contemplativo, tan consciente de la Vida, tan alejado del ruido que genera el miedo de los seres humanos a lo inexplicable y efímero de su existencia." - Diego Mansilla, Translator and Lecturer at Umass Boston