Kate McCahill has been published in Vox, The Millions, and in the Best Travel Writing and Best Women's Travel Writing anthologies by Travelers' Tales.
"Kate McCahill is a blues traveler, singing for citizens of the
world who have no public voice. She depicts beauty within despair,
allowing us to hear a comforting melody in an unsettling breeze and
see the gorgeous colors within a bruise. If a feeling of loneliness
pervades her essays, so do feelings of wonder and pleasure. It's
simply impossible not to share her joyful and frequently
bewildering sensations of travel." --Sascha Feinstein, author,
Black Pearls
"Oh, what a stunning and gorgeous book this is, and one I can't
wait to gift my daughter when she's ready. The story of a young
woman's year-long trip through the long and winding highways,
foot-paths, city streets and dusty back roads of Central and South
America, Patagonian Road reminded me of my own journeys and made me
pine for the ones I never had. It also expanded my understanding of
what the journey is--McCahill's rich and vivid and complex tapestry
of landscape, culture, geography, ecology, and economics, shows us,
lyrically and with great tenderness, how the individual is part and
parcel of a much larger whole, and how we can't find ourselves
without finding the world outside ourselves. I lived and breathed
every place this book touched down and when I turned the last page
my heart ached for the journey's end." --Robin MacArthur, author,
Half Wild: Stories
"Elegantly written and beautifully observed, McCahill's journey
takes her across mountains and cities, into the reaches of culture
and history, and into the self. Much of this is experienced from
the seat of a bus, surrounded by a sea of humanity, both part of
and an observer of the passing scene. A love affair is lost, new
ways of being are found, and the adventurous McCahill turns herself
not just not an intrepid traveler but into a fearless writer. By
turns charming, scary, vivid, and reflective--Flung is a treat for
the reader who need not buy a ticket but only open its pages to be
transported." --Miriam Sagan, author, Black Rainbow and Searching
for a Mustard Seed: One Young Widow's Unconventional Story
"With her Lonely Planet guide in one hand and Paul Theroux in the
other, Kate McCahill backpacks from Guatemala to Buenos Aires
losing love and finding a whirlwind assortment of ex-pats, aid
workers, travel junkies, and locals. Patagonian Road is a
millennial's adventure story, roughing it in the age of Skype and
cell phones, through a Latin America still in recovery from decades
of revolution, American meddling, and authoritarian misrule."
--Douglas Glover, author and editor, Numéro Cinq
"Vivid . . . insightful . . . A beautiful debut." Kirstin Valdez
Quade, author, Night at the Fiestas
"A compelling addition to the growing genre of solo travelogues by
women who end their journeys stronger, more self-aware, and more
connected to the world." Emily Dziuban, Booklist
"This welcome (and timely) call to explore foreign borders as well
as our own comfort zones is highly recommended." Benjamin
Malczewski, Library Journal
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