<br><b>&#8220;POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . <i>THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST</i> IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.&#8221;<br>&#8211;<i>The New York Times</i><br><br></b>Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon&#8217;s insular world&#8211;and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.<br><br><b>&#8220;BITTERSWEET . . . EVOCATIVE . . . It&#8217;s easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion.&#8221;<br>&#8211;<i>The</i> <i>Boston Globe</i><br></b><br><b>&#8220;Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.&#8221;<br>&#8211;<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><br><b>&#8220;A DELIGHT . . . A