The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803254749)

The old neighborhood was the place that Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone's parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the street, where the Catholic church operated like a religious city hall, and where he grew up vowing to get out as soon as he could and to shed his blue-collar beginnings and failed, flawed religion.

When the mysterious death of a childhood friend draws him back to the last street before Cleveland, however, he discovers that there is more to "old haunts" than mere words--and more to severing one's roots than just getting away.

The Last Street Before Cleveland chronicles Mackall's descent into his past: the story of how, looking for answers about his lost friend, he stumbles onto larger questions about himself. With clear-eyed candor, Mackall describes the resurfacing of dormant demons, the opening of the old chasms of depression and addiction, and the discovery, at rock bottom, of a flickering faith that casts a surprising light over everything that has come before. Mackall's is, finally, a story about life--lived and lost, given and earned.

Author: Joe Mackall
ISBN-10: 0803254741
ISBN-13: 9780803254749
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2014
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.59w x 0.40d