Nobody Hitchhikes Anymore - by Ed Griffin-Nolan (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

In the summer of 1978, Griffin-Nolan and a friend took to the road, hitchhiking from New York to California, on to New Orleans and back home to New York. As 2018 approached, the itch to hitch returned-but most people seemed to believe that this was now impossible. Griffin-Nolan decided to find out why nobody hitchhiked anymore. With a backpack, a hashtag, and a sign, he stuck out his thumb near his house, and let luck, and the road, take him where it would. Nobody Hitchhikes Anymore is an "act of loving rebellion" (Sean Kirst, Buffalo News) and a travelogue about a changing society and the people who lifted him up.

Review Quotes

"Hitchhiking, in essence, involves those with the elemental-a vehicle that moves-offering the most immediate of gifts to those, at least in the moment, who are utterly without. It is also a chance for little miracles, for connections and confessions, and as Griffin-Nolan unwinds each one within these chapters-as you meet the jobless and the dreamers and the nostalgic and, again and again and again, the fundamentally kind-you realize that his journey, above all else, is an act of loving rebellion." - Sean Kirst, Buffalo News columnist and Ernie Pyle Award winner

"Griffin-Nolan's spontaneous, unpredictable pilgrimage to revive old memories works wonderfully as a reminiscence for those who were there in the '70s and as encouragement for those who might contemplate such a venture now." - Feathered Quill Book Reviews