Amazon's #1 New Release in Spain & Portugal Travel & #3 New Release in Travel Writing!

Alfacinha

When Eva—a spirited lawyer-turned-linguist from the U.S.—arrives in Lisbon for the first time, she is seeking adventure. What she finds is far more transformative.

Over eight visits in eight years—and travels through Europe, the Americas, and Africa—Lisbon becomes Eva’s compass, the place she returns to when life’s biggest questions refuse to stay quiet.

Beneath the beauty, humor, and contradictions of each journey lies a deeper truth: Eva has spent her life chasing a feeling she can never quite catch—home.

Through vivid storytelling and candid introspection, this multilingual travel memoir invites readers to reflect on their own journeys, the connections that shape them, and the people and places they choose to call home.

A memoir

"Beginning in Lisbon's vibrant streets and unfolding across continents, one woman's search for love, freedom, and belonging becomes a memoir of how people and places enchant us, challenge us, and shape the winding path toward home."

Amazon's #1 New Release in SPain & Portugal Travel

Amazon's #3 New Release in Travel WRITING

“Eva tells a beautiful and powerful story about friendship, love, and discovering a home for the soul. Equally, Alfacinha finds its way into the reader’s soul and remains long after the book is finished.”
- Mike Nixon, Author of Life Travel and the People in Between
“Eva Michelle Wheeler combines rich description, a fierce travel lust, and a knack for languages in her breakout work ‘Alfacinha.’ Touching on the nuances of culture across the diaspora, Wheeler responds to the places and people she encounters with the curiosity and reverence of a true globetrotting explorer. Each city described is one the reader will want to put on their travel bucket list, and then read about in ‘Alfacinha’ again and again and again.”
- R. Renee Hess, Author of Blackness is a Gift I Can Give Her: On Race, Community, and Black Women in Hockey
“The book treats home as a sensation you grow into, not something you inherit, and the author writes of her travels the same way. Her adventure isn’t tourism, but the freedom discovered in movement, a love not only for the places she passes through but for the version of herself that emerges. A book about finding our center, Alfacinha is a generous memoir that will endear audiences to the people, the lands, and the languages that Wheeler loves.”
- Indies Today
★★★★★

Eva Michelle Wheeler

"Enjoy as much as you have done and can do ... we're only here on this planet for a little while." ~John Edward Wheeler