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"A good read even for those who have not the least ancestral or national bias―for those who desire civilized entertainment along with brilliant narrative." ―Seattle Times

In thirty-five years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Thomas Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those "fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims" making their way through the complexities of their own lives and times.

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Thomas Lynch has authored five collections of poetry, one of stories, and four books of essays. His first, The Undertaking, won the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction and the American Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, and the New York Times, among other publications. He works as a funeral director in Milford, Michigan, and teaches at the Bear River Writer’s Conference.
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“He’s no mere tourist but a man who’s made a deep personal commitment to the land from which his forebears came and who has a sensitive, nuanced understanding of the place and its people...It’s a lovely book.”
- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

“[Lynch] draws an enticing picture of his home away from home: the dreamlike environs of Moveen, County Clare.”
- Joseph O’Neill, New York Times Book Review

“Those of us with Irish ancestry will find this an appealing account of family, faith, destiny, and why so many Americans wish they were Irish, too.”
- Dan R. Barber, Dallas Morning News

“A master of the contemplative amble...There is enough poetry in the writing of it, both in verse and in prose, that a reader cannot come away from it without knowing what Lynch is about...Hearing Lynch’s story...one can gain wisdom for one’s own journey, Irish or not.”
- Marta Salij, Detroit Free Press

“In Booking Passage, Thomas Lynch’s ‘romance with words,’ realized as an altar boy responding in Latin, becomes a full-blown love affair in his prose about Ireland and fellow poets and what he thinks of the Church. His style has energy that takes my breath away it’s so fresh and unexpected.”
- Elmore Leonard

“Thomas Lynch is one of our indispensable essayists, a master of skeptical realism and tragicomic relief. The true subject of this generous, rowdy book is Lynch’s own wonderful mind, as it bobs and weaves, making connections between the personal and the tribal, history and the present moment, in language that is gorgeous and consistently apt.”
- Phillip Lopate, author of Getting Personal and Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan

“Thomas Lynch is an original...If there were more Thomas Lynches in the world, it might be a little less full of hatred and have a little more room in it.”
- George Bornstein, Times Literary Supplement

“The best writing in the book evolves from the sound of voices, from memory crammed into voice...[Booking Passage] becomes a layered hymn of gratitude to having family left on the other side...Spectacular.”
- James Liddy, Irish Times

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  • PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 0393328570
  • ISBN 13 9780393328578
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages342
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