Miles From Home is a deeply personal story and a narrative of the American dream. Born to a devoted mother and severely alcoholic father Phillip Lee Woods was sent as an 11 year old to live with a taciturn grandfather on a lonely farm in Indiana's countryside. Doing backbreaking chores from daybreak to dark and walking a long deserted road to catch the bus Woods' school years were marked by toil embarrassment about his circumstances and a yearning to reunite with his mother and sist