And Yesterday Is Gone
Dolores Durando
(Author)
Description
An epic coming-of-age novel about the bonds and history between two men that intertwine their families together--for better and for worse.Steve is a seventeen-year-old runaway when he meets, Juan, the son of a fugitive drug lord. The two work together, deep in the Calaveras Mountains of California, on a large marijuana-growing operation run by Juan's father. Their friendship is fueled by the brutal conditions and horrific events that define their day-to-day lives. The utter loneliness of their world creates a lasting bond, and the boys finally escape. Steve knows the two will be friends for life--but Juan hopes they will be something more. When they grow to manhood, Juan's love for Steve endures. Steve marries, has children, and fulfills his dream of becoming a journalist for San Francisco's leading newspaper. Juan becomes a famous artist who loves Steve's son as though the boy was his own, confessing to Steve that, "He is the only part of you that I can ever claim." By turns heartbreaking, emotional, and provocative, And Yesterday Is Gone is a must-read novel about the changes--unexpected, unacceptable, and life-threatening--that can alter our lives over the decades.
Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
Strebor Books
Publish Date
October 13, 2015
Pages
384
Dimensions
5.3 X 8.1 X 1.2 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781593096663
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The Long Journey Home is loosely based on the author's own experiences growing up inNorth Dakota during the Great Depression. Dolores Durando, born in 1921, is the author of five novels, AndYesterday is Gone, Beyond the Bougainvillea, Out of the Darkness, Always in the Ribbons, and this, her latest novel, The Long Journey Home. Dolores gained deep intuition for the diversity of humannature as a licensed psychiatric technician for more thanforty years in various mental hospitals. She served on mentalhealth advisory boards, both in California and Oregon, withfourteen years as a board member of ASSET, a nationallypublished magazine, for which she wrote short stories. Sheretired at seventy and moved to Oregon, where she has beenwriting, painting watercolors, and sculpting. She lives withher son and daughter-in-law in southern Oregon's stunningApplegate Valley.