Sat, May 13
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Neil King Jr., American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City, American Ramble offers an exquisite account of personal and national renewal—an indelible study of our country as we’ve never seen it before.
Date, Time & Location
May 13, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation and will be live-streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
American Ramble is available to purchase from CW online here, signed copies will be available after the event.
“This is a near perfect book, an exquisitely seen and felt memoir of an American journey; it's not just a geographic journey, full of keen observations and thoughtful insights, but a spiritual one, finding in our complex and sometimes contradictory landscape a mirror in which King's own inner life awakens as he wanders. Amazing” —Ken Burns
Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6th insurrection. Covid lockdowns and a rancorous election had deepened America’s divides. Neil himself bore the imprints…