Title : The Longest Trip Home: a memoir
Author : John Grogan
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-0-340-97899-3The Longest Trip Home: a memoir by John Grogan explores the journey of the author's life in an intimate manner. Grogan told a story about his life growing up in a devout Roman Catholic working-class family in a suburb near Detroit, Michigan in a candid manner.
His life although being brought up by his extremely strict and religious parents, however, Grogan's childhood had an interesting and out-of-the-ordinary twist to it. As he grew up during the counter-culture era in America, Grogan managed to chronicled some milestones he had witnessed while growing up that would eventually shaped the country's social and cultural landscapes.
Grogan was also being honest in telling the challenges and problems he faced with his parents while growing up and it was a story many readers who grew up in a similar era to the author would be able to identify and relate to. He has managed to keep readers spellbound as an excellent story teller, a skill Grogan picked up during his high school years of being the school's newspaper editor. Grogan's journalistic pursuits bode well for him as they proved him to be an excellent story teller and great writer of our time.
This book is highly recommended for readers who enjoy reading real life stories about ordinary people and the challenges these people face in their life. Books about real life would often impart some moral and universal values in which readers like me could learn to apply them in life and for a valid reason too.
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