The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781948509367)

In a travel memoir that ventures from his smalltown upbringing to vastly different cultures around the globe, Tom Montgomery Fate comes to define "home" not as a physical location, but as a way of belonging. "Migrating birds have an internal compass that allows them to home their way back to their nesting place each spring," he writes. "For birds, home is both verb and noun--both journey and destination." The same is true for Fate. Whether he is bobbing in a canoe in the freezing rain with his son on a Canadian lake, praying with Lakota elders in a sweat lodge in South Dakota, or teaching English in a remote Filipino village, these are not stories of arrival. They are detours of discovery, a spiritual wayfinding through the wilderness of time and memory.

Author: Tom Montgomery Fate
ISBN-10: 1948509369
ISBN-13: 9781948509367
Publisher: Ice Cube Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2022
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/30/2022