The Longest Trip Home
A Memoir
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Told with the same blend of humour and poignancy that made Marley & Me beloved by millions around the world, this is John Grogan's story of a boy and his family and of life long before that dog.
Finding your place in the world can be the longest trip home...
In his international bestseller Marley & Me, John Grogan perfectly described the love of a family for their wondrously neurotic dog. He made us laugh and cry, and showed how love can come in many forms. Now, in The Longest Trip Home, John writes with the same honesty, openness and humour about the relationship between a boy and his parents.
As a 'bad' boy in a good family, John didn't always live up to his parents' expectations, but as a man he came to understand the unconditional love they gave him. In this book, John describes his painful, funny and poignant journey into adulthood. A fateful call from his father would lead him on the next leg of his journey - the trip back home.
As warm and moving as Marley & Me, The Longest Trip Home is a lyrical tribute to the power of family and love.
PRAISE for The Longest Trip Home:
'Grogan follows up Marley & Me with a hilarious and touching memoir of his childhood in suburban Detroit.' Publishers Weekly (starred)
'If you enjoyed Marley & Me, you'll be equally amused and moved by this story' The Weekend Australian
'The strength of this book is the poignancy of the father-son relationship.' Sun-Herald
'moving and written with humour' The Age
'sentences that are lyrical and observations that are wry and witty' The Washington Post
'It's easy to think of John Grogan as your new best friend after reading this memoir.' Herald Sun
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Grogan follows up Marley & Me with a hilarious and touching memoir of his childhood in suburban Detroit. "To say my parents were devout Catholics is like saying the sun runs a little hot," he writes. "It defined who they were." Grogan and his three siblings grew up in a house full of saints' effigies, attended a school run by ruler-wielding nuns and even spent family vacations at religious shrines, chapels and monasteries. Grogan defied his upbringing through each coming-of-age milestone: his first impure thoughts, which he couldn't bare to divulge at his First Confession (the priest was a family friend); his first buzz from the communion wine he chugged with his fellow altar boys; and his coming to know women in the biblical sense. As Grogan matured, his unease with Church doctrine grew, and he realized he'd never share his parents' religious zeal. Telling them he's joined the ranks of the nonpracticing Catholics, however, is much easier said than done, even in adulthood. At 30, he fell in love with a Protestant, moved in with her and then married her a sequence of events that crushed his parents. In this tenderly told story, Grogan considers the rift between the family he's made and the family that made him and how to bridge the two.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful!!
Please please get marly and me up here! however I love this book! and I'm not even a book reader! Haha