Reviews and Praise


If you could completely change the course of your life, where would you go? Franz Wisner's funny, endearing, and breathtakingly detailed journey with his brother Kurt is a timely reminder that sometimes we have to travel the globe in order to find ourselves and the places and people we call home. Invite your book club along for the voyage and you'll wind up talking for hours about roads less traveled...and why it's never too late to take one."
-Jodi Picoult,
New York Times bestselling author
of My Sister's Keeper and Vanishing Acts




This notable, upbeat memoir takes readers through an overwhelmingly romantic disaster to the author's eventual redemption and personal transformation." "Wisner's narrative style is occasionally comic, but he can be serious, too, especially with his descriptions of people and places, and with his telling analysis of the talks he and his brother engage in.  The brothers' rekindled bond makes this memoir deeply moving." 
-Publishers Weekly



The Bee placed the book in the "plain old hard to put down category." to read the entire review click here.
-The Sacramento Bee



....Wisner's accounts of a Balinese cockfight or Trinidad's Carnival do what good travel writing should: make you want to be right then and there."
-Entertainment Weekly