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What Readers are Saying About THE MAN WITH NO BORDERS

Whether he’s untangling the strands of José’s dark inner world or offering a glimpse of a milieu where money serves as both lubricant and salve, Morais effectively reveals how heartbreakingly inadequate even vast resources can be in providing a bulwark against the assault of life’s most formidable challenges. A meticulous unearthing of the painful contradictions in a privileged life. – Kirkus Reviews

An absolutely astounding example of a sometimes strange and sometimes unsympathetic character revealing elements of the universal human story, the search for meaning in our lives, through our actions, our legacy, the people we have touched and who touch us. I cannot recommend this book more highly. So skillfully done, so moving. Finished it in a coffee shop and I still couldn’t keep myself from crying. – Rational Reader

When I finished Richard Morais’ latest book, The Many with No Borders, I took a breath so deep my wife asked me what was wrong. – Nikhil Hutheesing

At the heart of this book are the secrets that sustain us as individuals and that sustain our businesses, and how they also eat us alive. This is a fun book; it explores big issues of personality and society. There are lush descriptions of Spanish life that evoke Hemingway, including salmon fishing adventures, crave-inducing meals, and a remarkable cameo by Franco. – Michael Maiello

A fluid, lyrical look at a dramatic and often traumatic life. Fans of Anthony Doerr will enjoy this sweeping novel’s sumptuous locales and heart-wrenching vignettes. – Booklist

I loved the flow of this man’s memories, his demons and his wonders at the grandness of life. I strongly recommend it. – Maev

Best book I’ve read in years. I cannot stop thinking about the main character and his family. I normally do not give books five stars unless it’s a classic book by a classic author. However, in this case I truly believe that Richard Morais is one of the most talented writers that I’ve read this century. – E. White

Fictional tour de force. – Audiofile Magazine (Golden Earphones Winner)

This is a beautifully written book. The author manages to slip effortlessly from a reportorial style into dazzling images with a minimum of verbiage. What Barbara Kingsolver did for butterflies (Flight Behavior), and Richard Powers (The Overstory) did for forests, Morais does for fish. – A. Mayten

The Man with No Borders may have me reading novels again. After the first few chapters, I was reading at night until my eyes wouldn’t stay open. – Nancy NC

Morais uses elegant sentences to weave a story filled with emotion and deep insight. The brilliant descriptions of salmon fishing in Spain made me want to book a trip. And the denouement in which José changes his will to divide his fortune is a tour de force of wisdom. This is a deeply affecting book and I can’t get it out of my mind. – T. Ryder

Sarah Lawrence College Online Discussion of The Man with No Borders

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT APRIL 23, 2020

From my alma mater: Join us for a special evening with alumnus Richard C. Morais ’81 in a live discussion of his most recent novel The Man With No Borders. In advance of this event, you can read the novel along with Richard. Morais’ debut novel, The Hundred-Foot Journey, was a New York Times and international bestseller, which was brought to the big screen by Stephen Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey and starred Helen Mirren and Om Puri. Morais’ sophomore novel, Buddhaland Brooklyn, is currently in development as a premium TV series with K&L Productions.

Cultures Collide Tour #3

If you’re in the Boston area, please come hangout at this Nov 21st, 2019, event using my novels to riff on cross-cultural issues — and ask me some provocative questions! For details click on the Eventbrite posting by Cultural Vistas and Hostelling International.

Nonfiction Memoir in the Pipes

Forbes, Barron’s
Veteran and Bestselling Novelist Richard C. Morais Creates Literary Partnership
with Progressive Entrepreneur Joseph Sanberg

RCM Media Llc., the firm of award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Richard C. Morais, has entered into a literary partnership with Joseph Sanberg, a progressive entrepreneur investing capital for social impact and a rising star in Democratic Party circles. Mr. Morais and Mr. Sanberg are collaborating on  Sanberg’s memoir, tentatively called Commanded to Try after a Martin Luther King refrain that inspires Mr. Sanberg’s “war on poverty.”

“Joe’s story has it all,” says Mr. Morais. “It’s a 21st century tale that runs from living on Hamburger Helper and hiding from debt collectors to getting a full scholarship to Harvard and making a small fortune on Wall Street. Joe’s story is about heartache, family turmoil, the solace of religion, tenacity, smarts and the hard work of genuine soul searching. Joe is a complex figure of our times who is, controversially, both a classic entrepreneur and a believer in Medicare for All. I am convinced, if we do our job right, Commanded to Try will be a great read that addresses many issues of our Age through one man’s battle to do right and be heard.” 

“Richard has a great talent for capturing this economic and cultural moment in our nation’s history,” says Mr. Sanberg. “When he approached me with this idea, I was honored and excited about working with him.”

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Joseph Sanberg: Co-Founder, Aspiration & Chair, CalEITC4Me. Joseph Sanberg is a progressive entrepreneur who works through both the public and private sectors to improve public policy with the aim of ending poverty and making people’s lives better. Sanberg has been one of the nation’s leading advocates for the earned-income tax credit (EITC) for low-income families, and in 2015, he successfully lobbied legislators in his home state of California to create the state’s first EITC. Sanberg also serves on the board of the Economic Innovation Group and the Jefferson Awards Foundation.

Richard C. Morais: Managing Partner RCM Media Llc. Mr. Morais is an award-winning American journalist and novelist. His latest novel, The Man With No Borders, is published by Amazon’s literary imprint Little A and a prestigious “Amazon First Read.” His novel The Hundred-Foot Journey was a New York Times and international bestseller, which Stephen Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey released as a successful 2014 film starring Helen Mirren. He is also the author of Buddhaland Brooklyn, in development as a premium TV series, and the acclaimed business biography Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became a Label.

Mr. Morais was both the editor of Barron’s Penta, a glossy magazine
for wealthy families; and Forbes’s
European Bureau Chief, the magazine’s longest-serving foreign correspondent.
Mr. Morais has won three awards and six nominations at the Business Journalist of The Year Awards.
He was named the 2015 Citizen Diplomat of the Year“for promoting cross-cultural
understanding in all of his literary work.”

Captured by New Yorker Cartoonist

I have arrived. My likeness was captured at the 2019 Milford Readers & Writers Festival by New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein. How cool is that?

Amazon First Reads: Last Days For Free “The Man with No Borders”

The dog days of August are also the last days where you can pick up a free digital copy or a deeply discounted hardback of my novel, The Man with No Borders, before its official wide release on September 1st. So easy to get a copy by clicking on Amazon First Reads’ top literary title of the month.

Booklist Weighs In

Rave review from the go-to review portal for librarians.

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Tight Lines, Dad. I Love You.

This is your 90th birthday, Dad. Though you left this world two years ago, you remain very much alive and in my heart. I hope you take up your rod today and go down to the river. I’ll meet you there one day. Not now. But when it’s time. And we’ll fish together again.

Today, in your honor, I am looking at pictures of us fishing.

Dad and I posing with a 19 lb salmon I caught on the Langá River in Iceland.

Catch a big fish for us on the river where you are, Dad. I love you. Richard

The Man With No Borders Picked as Amazon’s Top Literary Book

Woohoo. Such an honor. My novel was chosen as the top literary title for August on the digital giant’s prestigious Amazon First Reads series.

Sexy Instagram Pic Spotted

Book sakes in UK are running strong. Perhaps this Instagram pic snapped in London explains why.