Taking the Long Way Home

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lissa always considered herself a true Texas girl. She loves Willie Nelson weekends on a ranch Texas-style BBQ and Longhorn football. But as she grows up Lissa's path leads her far from her home state and things start to get ... complicated. She and her friends drift to the East Coast and her career as a Democratic politico takes off. But her mother a quintessential Dallas housewife cannot understand her views and their relationship fractures over an issue with immense personal and political significance.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lissa isn't able to reconcile with her mother Kathy before she passes away. So when her father receives a terminal cancer diagnosis she's determined to mend this rift in her family. She packs up her two kids and heads back to Texas. Caring for her dad over the course of a hot Dallas summer Lissa relives the path that took her so far from home. Supported by her best girlfriends her family and a surprising stranger Lissa comes to better understand both her mother and herself and makes peace with her father's passing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A work of women's fiction Taking the Long Way Home takes its cues from Steel Magnolias and Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood; readers will no doubt laugh and cry. Partially an expat's love letter to the American South in these hyper-political times Taking the Long Way Home also provides a warmhearted meditation on devoted girlfriends parents' end of life the importance of family and the true meaning of home.</span></p>