The Road Home
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0671778331 / Publisher: Washington Square Press, October 1999
Reaching from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, the Western family saga begun in "Dalva" continues with the death of Dalva's half-Sioux grandfather and the return of her lost son
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The Road Home lies in the shadows of Manifest Destiny and Wounded Knee; it is etched into the landscape of an old man's memory and into the stubborn dreams of a young man's heart. In one of Jim Harrison's greatest works, five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. They strive to understand their fates, to reconcile with demons of the past, to live in accordance with the land and to die with grace. As the family grapples with the mysterious forces that both pull them apart and draw them inextricably back together, they must come to term with life's greatest and hardest lessons: the deception of passion, the pain of love, the vitality of art, and the supplication to nature's generosity and fury.
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