
The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
1985 · children
View on Bookshop.org →also on Amazon · Open Library
Set in 1 place · 1 primarySense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)
Meet Macon Leary—a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new journey. It's called love—and it arrives in the unlikely shape of a fuzzy-haired dog-obedience trainer who promises to turn the Accidental Tourist into a happy traveler...
Set in
- ★Baltimore · United States★ primaryBaltimore, Maryland, where travel writer Macon Leary — who hates travel — withdraws into his routines after his son's mu
Also set in Baltimore
More by Anne Tyler
Books set nearby

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
2 km · Johns Hopkins Hospital

Three Days in June
Anne Tyler
7 km · Roland Park

The Teeth of the Tiger
Tom Clancy
24 km · West Odenton

Booth
Karen Joy Fowler
35 km · Bel Air, Maryland

Patriot Games
Tom Clancy
36 km · Annapolis

The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
36 km · Annapolis

Best Offer Wins
Marisa Kashino
54 km · Bethesda, Maryland

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
56 km · Logan Circle



