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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

Because my sister Elizabeth was reading or rather listening to actor Andrew McCarthy's new

memoir Brat, I read it too. I found it very thought-provoking so I wanted to read Andrew

McCarthy's earlier memoir, The Longest Way Home, One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down.

Essential theme in both memoirs is Andrew McCarthy's feeling of being pulled between competing desires

for independent solitude and separation and connection, presence and belonging.

He wants to be alone and he wants to engage deeply with others,

and this paradox creates a real tension in his life. In The Longest Way Home,

he describes how he arranged to travel all over the world, in many cases on assignments as a

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