Accidental Tourist

POIGNANT … FUNNY … THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.The New York TimesMacon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macons insular worldand thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.BITTERSWEET … EVOCATIVE … Its easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners … Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion.The Boston GlobeTyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.Los Angeles TimesA DELIGHT … A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE.The Wall Street Journal