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Title: The Longest Trip Home

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: John Grogan

Narrator: John Grogan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-09

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In his debut bestseller Marley & Me, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Now in his highly anticipated follow-up, Grogan again works his magic, bringing us the true story of what came first.

Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic home outside Detroit in the 1960s and 70s. Despite his loving parents' best efforts, John's attempts to meet their expectations failed spectacularly. Whether it was his disastrous first confession, his use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him.

And then one day, a strong-willed young woman named Jenny walked into his life. As their romance grew, John began the painful, funny, and poignant journey into adulthood - away from his parents' orbit and into a life of his own. It would take a fateful call and the onset of illness to lead him on the final leg of his journey - the trip home again.

The Longest Trip Home is a book for any son or daughter who has sought to forge an identity at odds with their parents', and for every parent who has struggled to understand the values of their children. With his trademark blend of humor and pathos that made Marley & Me beloved by millions, John Grogan traces the universal journey each of us must take to find our place in the world.

Critic Reviews:

"Heart-rending." (New York Times)

"You've met the wife and dog, now meet the parents . . . Grogan makes readers feel they have a seat at the family dinner table." (People)

"A hilarious and touching memoir . . . a tenderly told story." (Publisher's Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Jewish guilt has nothing on Catholic guilt zealously applied

John Grogan's autobiography, THE LONGEST TRIP HOME, is his story of growing up Catholic - and then having to deal with it as an awkward teenager and maturing adult. His narrative is funny and poignant, and the experience all so true. I can attest to it.

Grogan spent his formative years in Detroit; I lived mine in Southern California. His parents were, perhaps by the standards of some, excessively devout in their religion; mine were less so, but we were regular church-goers and I was subject to 12 years of parochial education (grades 1-12). The Grogans had clerics over to dinner regularly; we but occasionally. John had a couple of priest uncles; I have only one cousin, whom I've never met, who's a Jesuit. The author's parish was Our Lady of Refuge; mine was Corpus Christi, then Our Lady of Malibu. John experienced First Confession, First Communion and was an altar boy; so did and was I. John once had prurient interest in a nun and developed an in-class woodie after undressing her in his mind's eye. What a perv! The only classroom authority figure I (and every other boy) lusted after was blonde and leggy Miss Loef, our fourth grade lay-teacher. She was an ex-stew from TWA. We were devastated when she dropped out to get married.

Jewish guilt has nothing on the Catholic version that is zealously applied.