The Road Home – Michael Thomas Ford Free Audiobook

Written by Michael Thomas Ford
Format: MP3

After sustaining injuries in a car accident, Burke returns to the family farm in Vermont where he is touched by the sight of memorabilia from his horsey, 4-H childhood, and feels the press of time. What he thinks is a photograph of Marshall, his high-school friend and first same-sex encounter, is actually of Marshall’s 20-year-old son. Burke’s father, whose traditional values contradict his sinful life with his widowed girlfriend, Lucy, still feels resentment that Burke “threw away a teaching career for the life of an artist,” left Vermont, and became a Boston photographer. Reticence defines this father-son relationship since “discussing their personal lives was not something the Crenshaw men did. Particularly when one of them was having relationships with other men.” Still, the old guy digs out his own father’s camera equipment for Burke, who is inspired by the rare Hasselblad 1600f to rise from his sick bed, and crutch-hop downstairs on his way to new beginnings in this midlife coming-of-age novel that is both piercingly accurate and sweetly hopeful. –Whitney Scott –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.