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"... impressive achievement... entertaining and affecting." |
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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"The reader may hear echoes of
Harper Lee...or of Flannery O'Connor's Southern grotesques...
or even of Huck Finn" |
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The Washington Post
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"... warm, witty, fresh and
innovative..." |
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Homer Hickam
author of October Sky
Complete Review |
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"...a gem - both gritty and heartwarming at once." |
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Lee Smith
author of The Last Girls
Complete Review |
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"...a novel for the heart." |
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Anne Rivers Siddons
author of Islands
Complete Review |
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"A journey well worth taking." |
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Tim Farrington
author of The Monk Downstairs
Complete Review |
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"...Michael Morris takes us along for a moving, funny ride." |
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Silas House
author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves
Complete Review |
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"...a novel for the ages." |
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Richard Paul Evans
author of The Christmas Box
Complete Review |
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"...touching, truthful, and beautifully written." |
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Lynne Hinton
author of Friendship Cake
Complete Review |
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"...many fine passages on the importance of home and the comforts of faith." |
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Booklist
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"Morris excels in creating the child's
voice... an inspiring portrait of a true survivor" |
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BookPage
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"Michael Morris is someone to watch...
[Slow Way Home is] courageous and heartbreaking and moving..." |
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The Birmingham News
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"[A]n emotionally charged work that is as timely as it is touching." |
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Dallas Morning News
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"[Morris] captures the rhythms of childhood and the tempo of slow maturation." |
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New Orleans Times-Picayunet
Complete Review
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"[Slow Way Home] has earned high praise for its 37-year-old author." |
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South Florida Sun Sentinel
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Rather than follow a court order to return Brandon to his troubled, drug-addicted mother, the eight-year-old's grandparents
"kidnap" him and assume new identities in a turbulent Southern town-until an unexpected chain of events shakes his new community to its core and throws Brandon back into
a precarious life with his mother.