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Michael Herrick
Author
What Mountains Teach
What Mountains Teach is a novel which narrates the midlife crisis of a man learning to love a young woman who grows older. Walt, suffering from a mid-life crisis and burnt out from teaching, decides to do something exciting by hiking the Appalachian Trail after he discovers a romantic journal written by a younger man named Strider. Hiking down from Harper’s Ferry to Springer Mountain, Walt remembers the passages written by Strider who, twenty years earlier, had walked over a thousand miles from Mt. Katahdin to Harper’s Ferry. Strider had quit his hike after encountering the love of his life and learning that a man needs to make a commitment. Walt, out of shape and cynical, disillusioned and unhappy, wants to be left alone with his thoughts. But as he walks his thousand miles, he has various experiences with hikers who alternately irritate him and enlighten him. What he discovers in this longest journey inwards is that his problem is not with his wife but himself and that he must overcome his solitary nature. He succeeds in his goal to finish the AT and is awarded with a big surprise: an essential truth about himself and the difference between the woman he wants to love and the woman he needs to love.
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