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**New York Times Best Selling Memoir**
Nominated for the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Sarton Memoir Award and the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Autobiographies and Memoirs
Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needed a wingman to help her become one of the only living persons to walk the historic 444-mile Natchez Trace as the pioneers did. She planned to walk fifteen miles a day. For thirty-four days. After striking-out with everyone in her life, she was left with her disinterested eighty-year-old father. And his gas. The sleep apnea machine and self-scratching. Sharing a bathroom with a man whose gut obliterated his aim. As Watkins trudged America's forgotten highway, she lost herself in despair and pain. Nothing happened according to plan, and her tenuous connection to her father started to unravel. Through arguments and laughter, tears and fried chicken, they fought to rebuild their relationship before it was too late. In Not Without My Father: One Woman's 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace, Watkins invites readers to join her dysfunctional family adventure in a humorous and heartbreaking memoir that asks if one can really turn 'I wish I had' into 'I'm glad I did.'
- Sales Rank: #38726 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-01-12
- Released on: 2015-01-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
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79 of 81 people found the following review helpful.
Not without her father...
By Story Circle Book Reviews
Cheryl Strayed walked the Pacific Crest Trail and wrote about it in Wild. Bill Bryson walked the Appalachian Trail and wrote about it in A Walk in the Woods. Their stories of sore feet and adventures have little in common, however, with Andra Watkins who walked the Natchez Trace and wrote about it in Not Without My Father. That's because the 444-mile Natchez Trace, once America's premiere foot path walked by such historical figures as Daniel Boone, is not a trail. It's a scenic byway for motorized vehicles stretching from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee.
And Andra Watkins isn't a devoted hiker. She walked the remnants of the old footpath to publicize her book: To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis. The quirky premise of that book, published in March, 2014, involves the ghost of Meriwether Lewis trying to redeem himself for his own unresolved death. Lewis, best known for his participation in the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806, died in 1809 at the age of 35 while traveling on the Natchez Trace. Whether his death was suicide or murder continues to be debated by historians.
The title for Watkins' book comes from the fact that she was accompanied on the walk by her father. Each day he dropped her off where she had finished the day before and picked her up at the end of her daily 15-mile tormented walk, which never got easier. While readers of this book will learn something of the Trace's historic past, they will learn more about a troubled relationship between a daughter and her father—and where this journey takes them. Not Without my Father is more about relationships and coming to know one's self than it is a travelogue. It's a story that is real, with all the grit of growing up in a household that had little resemblance to the Beaver's world of June and Ward Cleaver.
This is a book without traditional heroes, but one in which you'll find yourself rooting for the non-heroes who struggle to give meaning to their lives, the daughter by walking and the father by selling his daughter's books along the way. Both finally have the time to explore and try to overcome memories of bad times in their relationship, and both realize the time remaining to mend their ways is short.
Did Andra really walk beside a highway the entire Natchez Trace? Did she and her father come to better understand each other? I'm not going to answer those questions. You'll have to read the book and find out for yourself. I'll just say that it won't be a waste of your time.
by Pat Bean
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
Make a Memory With this Memoir as your Guide
By K. Piccini
Don’t you love when a memoir engages and entertains you as much as fiction? Aren't you enthralled when a writer can take you along on their journey and allow you to experience their range of emotions while you are simply reading their words?
I am; which is why when I was given the chance to read an advanced copy of “Not Without My Father” chronicling Andra’s walk of the Natchez Trail I found myself horrified, humbled and honored from one moment to the next. While the walk itself would clamor to be the central character it ends up being the voices of Watkins, her dad, her best friend, her mom and her husband that set the scene and tell the story.
A story that starts much earlier than the first sign post on the Trace and ends long after she has limped past the last to finish her walk into self-salvation.
Told mostly from the point of view of Andra some of my favorite chapters were those where her father Roy interjects his own thoughts and memories with the air of a man who knows how powerful words and stories can be. In is within those chapters that you come to see where Andra got her determined, stubborn and hopeful spirit. With every anecdote sprinkled among the stories of his daughter was telling us of blistered feet, self doubt and redemption Roy proved that we, as human beings, become the sum of the stories we tell and are told.
Who hasn't reached mid-life and not questioned their place in the world, their relationship with their parents and the next chapter to their own story?
This, at its heart, is the beauty of Watkin’s book.
I felt changed and most importantly, moved, by her story. I called my own mother eager to recount our own memories, I told my husband the narratives that shaped the life of my deceased father and I felt the tug of the family bind, the blood ties. For there is humor and disgust, kindness and exasperation in every family history and “Not Without My Father” shies from none of it, instead it invites you on the walk complete with a soundtrack fit for a journey to the center of family, self and acceptance.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
A Great Story of Two Journeys
By James J. Kane
In early 2014 Andra Watkins walked the Natchez Trace from Mississippi to Tennessee as a way of promoting her first novel To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis (Wordhermit Press).
Many people, including this reviewer of that book, followed Andra along her journey as she posted daily video blog posts about that promotional journey. What many of us did not know was the unfolding “behind the scenes” story with her father and mother as she walked.
Not Without My Father is that story.
And what a story it is!
Written in a very engaging style with both actual personal thoughts from Andra’s dad as well as snatches of her conversations with him, Not Without My Father is a great contemporary memoir in which two adults seek to re-develop (and perhaps re-negotiate it as well) their relationship from child and parent to two adults. Her journey, and Roy’s (her dad) becomes more than a promotional tour. It truly becomes a journey of reconciliation and hope as well.
I am grateful for this book primarily because I think that it gives us a glimpse into a writer’s back story that is often unknown until years later, if ever. But I also like it very much because it reminds us that family is oh so important.
I rate this book a ‘great’ read.
Note: I reviewed an ARC of this book via the author without an expectation of a positive review.
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