Taking the Long Way Home

<p><strong>I thought I was escaping war. Instead I found my way home.</strong></p><p></p><p>In the early 1970s a wannabe hippie with a rootless dysfunctional childhood searched for peace amid campus protests and cultural upheaval. Just weeks from earning her journalism degree she faced a life-changing decision: let her new husband be drafted to Vietnam - or join him in the Peace Corps and leave the U.S. behind.</p><p></p><p><em>Taking the Long Way Home: A Peace Corps Memoir of Brazil and Finding Home in the 1970s</em> is the true story of a young American couple's transformative journey to Northeast Brazil - a region still reeling from a failed revolution. There amid intense heat poverty and beauty they built a school launched grassroots projects and found themselves immersed in a world both foreign and deeply human.</p><p></p><p>Now decades later as her generation once again faces deep questions about democracy and America's role on the world stage Anne Spry reflects on the lessons Brazil taught her: about identity resilience service - and the quiet enduring work of finding a home within your own heart.</p>