Help me find a book I read once, ten or twelve years ago, and barely remember

December 27, 2008 7:00 PM

I'm trying to find a book I read in high school and barely remember. It was a sort of magical realism thing titled, I think, "The Road to Foo" where "Foo" was pronounced by the teacher as "Thomas and Charlie" but was one slurred together word/place name in, I think, Spanish or Portuguese. But I am very, very bad at hearing phonetic differences and worse at spelling. And high school was a long time ago. I don't remember much about the book except there was an old man, probably senile, who goes on a last journey. And it was short. Can anyone tell me how to spell the damn title, so I can find it? Thanks.
posted by Grod to Writing & Language (3 answers total)

Best answer: Best get to work on your Google skills, boah. ;)

Here, third result.
posted by abcde at 7:16 PM on December 27, 2008

Best answer: The Road to Tamazunchale
posted by acorncup at 7:30 PM on December 27, 2008

Response by poster: abcde, when I tried my spelling was too far off. Thanks.
posted by Grod at 9:34 PM on December 27, 2008