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The Choice and Other Stories
Journeying across borders, nations, and cultures, the book has stories that reflect life with love, humanity, hope, humility, and humor.
About The Author
M. Eric (Marty) Adler is a retired Foreign Service Officer now living in Maui, Hawaii. For more than two decades, he served as a U.S. diplomat, moving across borders, navigating complex international landscapes, and forming human connections that stayed with him long after the assignments ended.
Beyond diplomacy, Marty’s life has taken many forms. He has worked as a language teacher, a Red Cross shelter manager, a court interpreter, a Peace Corps volunteer, a waiter and busboy, a construction laborer, and even a sanitation worker. Each role added another layer to his understanding of people, work, and dignity.
A Book Not Only To Read But To Live Through
The Choice and Other Stories unfolds like a personal journey, shaped by memory, movement, and moments that refuse to fade. The book carries the reader across borders and decades, not as a travel record, but as a sequence of lived experiences where small decisions quietly change the course of a life. Each story feels like a pause in the journey, a moment remembered because it mattered, even if its meaning only became clear much later.
From Santo Domingo to Kathmandu, from Carnival in Brazil to tense border crossings in Europe, the collection moves through moments of humor, danger, love, and discovery. The settings shift, but the emotional center remains constant: people meeting one another across language, culture, fear, and hope. These are stories born in classrooms, cafés, crowded streets, and lonely checkpoints, places where life unfolds without ceremony and choices are made without rehearsal.
Unnoticed Moments
of Life
Tales from a Wanderer
What Readers
Felt
Each story feels like a postcard from another life — heartfelt, vivid, and real.
Beatrice G. Moultry
This book feels like sitting with someone who has truly lived and is finally telling you the stories that stayed with them. Nothing feels forced or dramatic, yet every chapter leaves a mark. I finished it slowly because I didn’t want the journey to end.
Donnie L. Sylvester
I picked this up expecting travel stories, but it’s really about people and choices. Some stories made me smile, others made me pause and think. It’s simple, real, and very easy to get lost in.
Mary A. Kovacs
This book doesn’t shout, but it stays with you. Each story feels personal and true, like a memory someone trusted you with. I loved how it made ordinary moments feel important without trying too hard.
Martha R. Blake
What I liked most is how human these stories feel. There’s no pretending to be perfect, just moments of doubt, kindness, and learning. It reminded me how much meaning lives in small decisions.
Warren T. Triplett
This was such an enjoyable read. The stories move quickly, the settings are vivid, and there’s always something relatable, even when the places are far from home. It’s the kind of book you keep thinking about after you put it down.
Tales That Linger For Years
As you turn the page, you walk through a culture you have never heard of, a nation you have never thought about, and a country you have never been to.
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Begin the journey.
Step into lives shaped by quiet choices and distant roads.
