Tales of a Reluctant Traveler -

Randy Ross, "Tales of a Reluctant Traveler" visiting author at the Medfield Public Library - Tuesday, November 12th at 7-8:30pm!

Don't miss this visiting author!!

Presenting Randy Ross, "Tales of a Reluctant Traveler", which is part travel documentary, part author visit, part performance.

Randy Ross took a four month solo trip around the world then wrote a comedic novel (God Bless Cambodia) based on the experience and then developed a one-man show about it (The Chronic Singles Handbook) which he says is sort of Eat, Pray, Love meets "The 40-Year Old Virgin". The novel and show are pretty baudy, so this is a library-friendly version that has a "humorous slideshow" from his trip, performance excerpts, and readings from the novel. He's also going to talk about the actual writing of the book, I think.

This is a review of the novel: An unemployed magazine editor in his late forties, bored with his life and willing (apparently) to take it in a seriously offbeat new direction, decides to take a four-month tour of the world. The problem, however, isthat Randall Burns hates to travel (echoing Macon Leary in Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist (1985)). Also, he isn’t especially enamored of the idea of meeting new people, and he’s uncomfortable with the whole notion of being in new places.

This fictional travel memoir reads very much like one of those accounts of real-life travel gone bad: Randall fetches up in various places, tries to hook up with various women (with mostly depressing or distressing results), and experiences moments of high adventure and many
more moments of almost paralyzing loneliness. A very entertaining story about a guy who sets out to change his life, with varying degrees of success.— David Pitt, Booklist

This is the description of the actual talk he'll be doing at the library, called "Tales of a Reluctant Traveler." Sixteen weeks, four continents, three bungee jumps, and I couldn't come home
soon enough. This is the story of how a Boston homebody turned a solo trip around the globe into a comedy novel and an acclaimed one-man show.

The 1.5-hour, multimedia event includes a humorous travel slide show, readings from my novel God Bless Cambodia and performances from my show The Chronic Single's Handbook.

His site says this show is for General public, comedy lovers, people interested in world travel, and writers

To attend, Sign up HERE!