What if the wrong road was never wrong — just the long way to where you were always supposed to be?

The Long Way Home is a collection of twelve powerful stories about the people who finally arrive — a teacher who spent fifteen years in the wrong career and discovered that every one of those years was building the specific intelligence that made the right career genuinely extraordinary, a man who lived in three cities before the fourth one was his, a woman who waited eleven years for the marriage that had always been the marriage.

These are not stories about wasted time or second-best outcomes. They are stories about real Americans who took the long road and discovered, upon arriving, that the length of the road was not a detour from the destination — it was the making of it.

Inside this book you will find:

• A cell biologist who followed an anomaly in year-eight data and found that twenty-six years of reliable science had been building the capacity to recognize what she was looking at
• A pastor who left the institutional church and found, on the other side, the thing the church had always been the vehicle for
• A woman who tended her late husband's garden for three years and arrived at a relationship with growing things that was entirely and specifically her own
• A man who spent sixty years being warm and unreachable and three years finally finding the room he'd been giving others the experience of without being in himself

The Long Way Home is a book about the road that was always going somewhere — and what you find when you finally stop fighting its length.

The long way home is still the way home.