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Title: The Last Road Home
Author: Danny Johnson
Narrator: James Patrick Cronin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-26-16
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From Pushcart Prize nominee Danny Johnson comes a powerful, lyrical debut novel that explores race relations, first love, and coming of age in North Carolina in the 1950s and '60s.
At eight years old, Raeford "Junebug" Hurley has known more than his share of hard lessons. After the sudden death of his parents, he goes to live with his grandparents on a farm surrounded by tobacco fields and lonesome woods. There he meets Fancy Stroud and her twin brother, Lightning, the children of black sharecroppers on a neighboring farm. As years pass, the friendship between Junebug and bright, compassionate Fancy takes on a deeper intensity. Junebug, aware of all the ways in which he and Fancy are more alike than different, habitually bucks against the casual bigotry that surrounds them - dangerous in a community ruled by the Klan.
On the brink of adulthood, Junebug is drawn into a moneymaking scheme that goes awry - and leaves him with a dark secret he must keep from those he loves. And as Fancy, tired of saying yes'um and living scared, tries to find her place in the world, Junebug embarks on a journey that will take him through loss and war toward a hard-won understanding.
At once tender and unflinching, The Last Road Home delves deep into the gritty, violent realities of the South's turbulent past, yet evokes the universal hunger for belonging.
Members Reviews:
A Taste Of Sweet Tea,Served Beside Burning Crosses
Southern authors have been one of my favorite genres for as long as I can remember. So finding a new voice that speaks the language of the south, is a joy.
Johnson writes with the same flair as Pat Conroy, reminding me with this piece of the emotional nuances found in The Prince of Tides.
The author takes us inside the world of the south in the early sixties with its turbulent race problems, up to current times. And he takes us there in a beat up pickup truck, running back roads that move from being fragrant with the smells and sights of rich farmlands, to the seamy backwoods cloaking drug lords ushering in the reign of marijuana.
Midway through the story, weâre helicoptered into the quagmire of Vietnam with the protagonist finding and using skills only a few can, or even want, to lay claim to. Finding that the dark secrets of his past have laid groundwork for what he becomes in the war offers a type of solace for the protagonist, causing him to concede to the possibility that we come here with a certain destiny in life. Each incident guiding us down the path for what lies ahead.
The Last Road Home delivers a powerful story, speaking to us with a deliberate southern cadence, which can be warm and sultry as in the relationship with Junebug and Fancy, or deliberate and full of grit, as reflected during Junebugâs tour of Vietnam.
This piece will linger in the back of my mind, as have all the other great southern authorâs books, because the story has been told so well, encompassing the rhythm of the south in all its diversity, serving it up with sweet tea, burning crosses, and a smile that can sometimes slip sideways into a grimace.
It tackles interracial love in the pre-Civil rights South in a tender and ...
The Last Road Home is not simply a coming of age story. It tackles interracial love in the pre-Civil rights South in a tender and completely believable way.
