THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST 

Synopsis: The meeting of Macon Leary, a travel-hater who makes a living writing travel guides called "The Accidental Tourist in...," and frizzy-haired, nonstop talker Muriel sets off an unexpected chain of events From the Inside Flap: The story of a travel-hating writer of travel books, Macon Leafy, who systematically avoids adventure... until he meets the frizzy-haired, stiletto-heeled, astonishing Muriel (she's trying to train his unmanageable Welsh corgi, Edward), who up-ends Macon's world and thrusts him into engagement with life. Anne Tyler's most famous best seller.Winner of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.