Long Way from Paris (Murray)

Book Reviews
A riveting read. Murray engages the senses every step of the way.
Scott Driscoll, University of Washington, author of Better You Go Home

 
Murray is both a sharp observer of the local color and a cartographer of her own internal geography, making A Long Way from Paris as richly textured as fromage de chèvre.
Langdon Cook, author of The Mushroom Hunters
 

[EC Murray] beautifully explores her deep awareness of the land, an unfolding appreciation of hard work and the importance of family. The result is a fascinating journey filled with wisdom, grace and compassion.
Carlene Cross, author of The Undying West, Fleeing Fundamentalism

 
EC Murray brings the reader to the haunting, godforsaken beauty of the French Pyrenees…living a life stripped down to the basics, her senses, intuition, and heart must take over. It is a thoughtful, heartwarming journey…that leads…to the core of life.
Beth Corcoran, Lévis-Lauzon College

 
Written with beauty, candor and wit.
Wendy Hinman, author of Tightwads on the Loose


Totally engrossing and imbued with both humor and heartbreak. Murray has infused the everyday with meaning and adventure.
Carol Wissmann, Freelance writer, editor, and speaker.

 
Anyone who’s struck out on the road to find themselves (and those who’ve wanted to!) will surely see themselves in E.C. Murray’s lovely and nicely rendered A Long Way from Paris.
Theo Pauline Nestor, author of Writing is My Drink.

 
Every woman—and her daughter—should read this book, brimming with gentle insights and strength of spirit, as sometimes we, like the author, mistakenly believe ourselves bereft of both.
Carol Wissmann, Freelance writer, editor, and speaker.


[A] young American woman backpacking through Europe.... A Long Way from Paris recounts [the author's] jarring transformation from footloose vagabond to live-in, language-deficient goatherd for a family in the mountains of Languedoc.... Flecked with humor and bittersweet candor, this account captures the essence of coming of age.
Bellingham and Kitspa Sun


A rich, lucid debut memoir of an American hippie’s adventures on a goat farm in southern France in the early 1980s, pieced together from the author’s journals.... A welcome memoir of France that offers a complex mosaic of memories (a Kirkus Best Book for 2014).
Kirkus Reviews