The Only Way Home

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction!Desperate times. Danger on the rails. A journey to save a family.It is 1933 inside a sweltering courtroom in Macon Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Robert sits on a bench awaiting sentencing after being picked up for vagrancy and spending a night in jail. He left his home in Illinois with a neighborhood friend to ride the rails and find work to help their families. The friend turned back too afraid to face the perils ahead. But going back empty-handed isnt an option for Robert.THE ONLY WAY HOME is the story of one boys determination to survive loss and hardship to help his family - and how fate and a violin touch the course of his life.Fans of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens and Sold On a Monday by Kristina Morris will love this story set during the Great Depression of a fatherless boy fighting to keep his family together.AWARDSThe Only Way Home received the Colorado Authors League 1st Place Gold Award for Historical Fiction a 2nd Place Silver CIPA EVVY Award in Literary & Contemporary Fiction and a 3rd Place Bronze CIPA EVVY Award in Historical Fiction. Jeanette Minniti also received an Honorable Mention Award from Readers Favorite in Historical Fiction-Events/Eras.