David Mcgahey

Postcards from the Road: Collected Stories David Mcgahey

There will always be interest in travel stories, since Americans love to be on the move and love to hear about other places and the people who inhabit them. The eleven stories in this collection all stand admirably on their own, tied together with a travel theme and introduced by a celebratory essay on the tradition of travel in American literature. Add the psychological insights from a writer who can skillfully put words on paper and you have a worthwhile read. "With its straight-ahead prose and flashes of local color, Postcards from the Road carries us to destinations both geographic and personal. It does what the best travel writing should do: exposes us to the strange and the exotic out in the world so that we can measure the distance of our innermost journeys. In David McGahey's Honduran taxi drivers, German skinheads, and young American lovers, we see ourselves. Reading this book is like glimpsing your own reflection in the windows of a passing train." -Joseph Freda, author of The Patience of Rivers and Suburban Guerrillas