5th&Hope

It has been decades since Bobby last saw his mother. Now his sister calls and he knows before she even speaks--the old woman is finally dead. Hed expected to feel nothing; but death Bobby knows has a funny way of surprising you. Now after all these years he leaves Californias sunny cliffsides behind and heads back to the blue mountains of Kentucky where his buried memories lie hidden among the dogwoods.When Bobbys wife Rebecca first finds his grandfathers diaries in the dusty rooms of their family home Bobby is hesitant--hes learned the hard way to let the dead rest. But as Bobby reads more about his grandfathers life in California during the depression the more excited he becomes. The old mans words seem to hide some quiet essential truth and without really knowing why Bobby finds himself driving Route 66 in his beloved 1929 Pearce Arrow hoping to find in the Californian haunts of his grandfathers past something to chase away his own lingering demons.But the road ahead is long and winding and the forests of home are never as far away as they seem. The Appalachian looms on the horizon and Bobby will learn that sometimes finding the truth means following your roots.