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WINNER OF A 2021 INDIEREADER DISCOVERY AWARD!!!Runner-Up in the Literary-Humor category for the 2021 Maxy Awards!2021 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist!The prose itself is beautiful to read and the plot is gripping. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who loves a book that goes deeper than surface level as it examines the things that makes us human. - Andrea RamirezCan an underachieving son reconnect with his father before its too late?Jacobs life is already complicated enough. Now Dad whose mind isnt as sharp as it once was is driving out for a visit. Or he was before he got lost along the way. Now its up to Jacob to find him and reconnect. A touching story about families relationships and aging parents.A funny and heartbreaking novel about a man with a broken marriage a dubious writing career and a father with dementia who sometimes disappears while driving on his own. The novel is both a tender road trip story and a sweet romantic comedy with descriptions so vivid it hardly reads like fiction. - IndieReader ReviewReview by Don Roswell 5 stars April 21 2021 For starters Bob Seay can write. I mean really write. Its no wonder his main character Jacob makes a living (albeit unethically) writing scholastic papers for others. Jacobs already disrupted life (broken marriage failed teaching career) is being turned on its head by his fathers digression into dementia. It seems to me a few reviewers missed the point of all of this. It is not really a story about Jacobs cross-country treks to get his wandering father home. Rather it is his own story a search by an underachiever whose various relationships and fathers eroding health are forcing him to come to terms with his own mortality and need for purpose. By choosing to tell the tale in first-person present narrative Seay crafts a story that moves at a good pace and touches all the emotional bases. Especially at the ending when any thinking reader should be deeply moved. Well done.