![]() After being in the army for twelve years, he has now been discharged and back home in Prairie Vista. Just before his eighteenth birthday he got into some trouble with law that resulted in him being given the choice of jail or the military. Mick had been raised in foster homes all around Prairie Vista, Texas. The opinions expressed are solely my own. I was entrusted a copy of this book by Booksprout. I am looking forward to more stories in this series by this very talented author. We as individuals, and as a society need to support them. It’s also a reminder of the struggles the brave men and women who dedicate themselves to keep us safe, deal with on a daily basis. This was a touching story about redemption, new beginnings, hope, overcoming obstacles and finding love. She believes in him, but when an unexpected surprise crosses Mick’s path, the future he hoped for is likely to be only a dream. She sees him arriving in town and immediately attempts not only to make him feel welcomed, but also helps him get a job and befriends him. ![]() Hayley Simms, the town’s golden girl and one he knew from afar in HS, now owns the local cafe. Add that the survivor’s guilt he feels for the one man that believed him, and you know this man has been broken more than once. He’s back, a decorated Army Ranger, at the only place that he could call home, but also where is past is likely to mark him forever. Mick Breeden was once the troublemaker in town and where he almost ended up in jail. A story that will touch your hearts from beginning to end. Above all, it is about the power of freedom and the dreams that link and inspire Black people across borders from the perspective of one who has deep ties to, critiques of, and hope for both countries.This is the first book I have read by this author and I have since become a fan. The Long Road Home is a moving personal story and a vital examination of the nuances of racism in the United States and Canada. She then moves across the border and settles in Montreal, a unique city with a long history of transnational Black activism, but one that does not easily accept the unfamiliar and the foreign into the fold. Then she revisits her four American homes, each of which reveals something peculiar about the relationship between American racism and democracy: Boston, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the American Revolution Athens, Ohio, where the white working class and the white liberal meet Chicago, Illinois, the great Black metropolis and Eugene, Oregon, the western frontier. She was often the Only One-the only Black person in so many white spaces-in a country that perpetuates the national mythology of multiculturalism. More than a century later, Thompson still feels the echoes and intergenerational trauma of North American slavery. She begins in Shrewsbury, Ontario, one of the termini of the Underground Railroad and the place where members of her own family found freedom. In The Long Road Home, Thompson follows the roots of Black identities in North America and the routes taken by those who have crisscrossed the world’s longest undefended border in search of freedom and belonging. But her decade-long journey across Canada and the US transformed her relationship to both countries, and to the very idea of home. ![]() When Debra Thompson moved to the United States in 2010, she felt like she was returning to the land of her ancestors, those who had escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONįrom a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America.
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