The Longest Trip Home
A Memoir
By John Grogan
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780061713309, 352pp.)
Publication Date: September 24, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Hardcover (October 21, 2008), Compact Disc (October 21, 2008), Large Print (October 21, 2008)
Categories: Personal Memoirs
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the November 2008 Indie Next ListMeet the Grogans
Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy navigating his way through the seismic social upheaval of the 1960s. On the one side were his loving but comically traditional parents, whose expectations were clear. On the other were his neighborhood pals and all the misdeeds that followed. The more young John tried to straddle these two worlds, the more spectacularly, and hilariously, he failed. Told with Grogan's trademark humor and affection, The Longest Trip Home is the story of one son's journey into adulthood to claim his place in the world. It is a story of faith and reconciliation, breaking away and finding the way home again, and learning in the end that a family's love will triumph over its differences.
John Grogan is the author of the #1 adult bestseller Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog, which inspired the bestselling middle-grade memoir Marley: A Dog Like No Other. He is also the author of the #1 bestselling picture books Bad Dog, Marley! and A Very Marley Christmas. John lives with his wife and three children and their dogs, Gracie and Woodson, in the Pennsylvania countryside.
John Grogan ha sido un premiado reportero grÁfico y columnista por mÁs de veinticinco aÑos. Vive en Pensilvania con su esposa Jenny y sus tres hijos.
"As he did in Marley, Grogan makes readers feel they have a seat at the family dinner table. He's now a nonpracticing Catholic, but here-to wonderful effect-he confesses all."
-Teen People Book Club
"Genuinely heartending. . .Grogan invests these events with deeply felt humanity and pathos."
-Janet Maslin, New York Times
"John Grogan is more like Marley than he might want to believe. An affable, unassuming rabble-rouser, the author who penned a bestseller about his goofy dog gets up to some hilarious antics of his own ... The resulting story is full of humor [and] poignant scenes.
-BookPage
"From the author of Marley & Me (2005), this is an extraordinary memoir of estrangement and reconciliation."
-Booklist
"With his telltale humor and poignant observations about life and our humanity, John Grogan delivers another emotional wallop here. THE LONGEST TRIP HOME is a must read for anyone who has questioned their faith, sought to understand their identity, and loved their family. In other words, everyone."
-Ann Hood, author of Comfort: A Journey Through Grief and The Knitting Circle
"Wry and witty. . . [a] full-hearted and worthy memoir."
-Washington Post
"Grogan's memoir of his journey for identity is akin to Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance."
-Library Journal
"As he did in Marley, Grogan makes readers feel they have a seat at the family dinner table. He's now a nonpracticing Catholic, but here-to wonderful effect-he confesses all."
-People
"As he did in Marley, Grogan makes readers feel they have a seat at the family dinner table. He's now a nonpracticing Catholic, but here-to wonderful effect-he confesses all."
-People Magazine, 4 stars
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