Is This the Way Home?

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Abducted at eleven. Forced into marriage with rebel commanders. Fifteen years of brutality captivity and survival in the bush. But when Adong Agnes finally escapes the Lord's Resistance Army with her two young daughters the homecoming she longed for is not the one she receives.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Branded a Kony whore beaten and cast out by the very people she dreamed of returning to Agnes is left to rebuild her life from nothing. Her own father attempts to exorcise her past. Her sons left behind when she fled refuse to speak to her. In the eyes of her village she is tainted-no longer a daughter no longer a sister no longer welcome. But Agnes refuses to be erased.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fighting to carve out a future she builds a life from nothing: securing a job finding allies in unlikely places and shielding her daughters from the very traumas she has endured. When a near-tragedy brings her face-to-face with her past she begins a journey of healing-one that will take her from the streets of Gulu to the Mormon temple in Johannesburg and eventually to the very heart of her captivity in the Congo. Her journey is one of reclamation agency and radical survival.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Written by an aid worker and professor who spent years working with Uganda's child mothers </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>Is This the Way Home?</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is an unflinching yet deeply human novel that bridges one woman's story with the thousands who endured-and continue to endure-the lasting wounds of war. A powerful testament to resilience healing and the unstoppable force of a mother determined to rise.</span></p>