Eighty Days to Elsewhere
Book Feature - Eighty Days to Elsewhere by kc dyer
HBL Note: If you’re like me and going stir crazy during this time of social distancing, travel bans, and self-quarantine restrictions, then you’ll want to pick up a copy of Eighty Days to Elsewhere by kc dyer to scratch that travel itch. Romy goes on her adventure in order to save her uncle’s bookstore, so I also want to give a shoutout to all the independent bookstores out there who are thinking creatively and working harder than ever to keep their businesses afloat during this time and bringing books to readers (especially my favorite STL bookstore, The Novel Neighbor.) Scroll down to read more about Eighty Days to Elsewhere.
Book Feature - Eighty Days to Elsewhere by kc dyer
From the publisher:
In kc dyer’s truly original EIGHTY DAYS TO ELSEWHERE, you have the opportunity to take a thrill-filled globe-trotting excursion from the comfort of your couch. To save her uncles’ bookstore from bankruptcy, Romy Keene embarks on the most involved job interview that plays out like a mashup of The Amazing Race and Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. And, most inconveniently, she ends up falling for the man who is her competition for the job.
With her signature vibrant and hilarious voice, lauded in earlier works like Finding Fraser (2016), dyer succeeds in not only making Romy a character you can relate to and root for, but she so vividly sets the scene of each of the places Romy visits one would almost think she experienced it all herself. And she did. In preparation for writing the novel, dyer trekked every step of Romy’s journey around the world—and now she invites you to do the same.
