The Long Way Home

<p>A man a dog and the long road out of grief.</p><p></p><p>The Long Way Home is a spare luminous poetry-and-stories hybrid that follows Tyler and his French bulldog Dobby through storms backroads and the cold mercy of the woods. Part I moves from a night that will not end to the white seam of the highway a harsh-lit diner a climb a summit-and the comic grace of the Dobby Tales. Part II keeps vigil in the wilderness: rain that demands patience hunger met with salvage and a stubborn hope that refuses to go out.</p><p></p><p>Written in clean exact lines and brief narratives this debut returns to the oldest promises-companionship endurance and the way a dog steadies a wandering soul. For readers of Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry it's a field guide to grief nature and resilience: one mile one fire one small miracle at a time.</p>