1/7/2024 0 Comments A long way home a memoir![]() "Amazing stuff."- The New York Post "So incredible that it sometimes reads like a work of fiction."- Winnipeg Free Press (Canada), "Amazing stuff."- The New York Post "So incredible that sometimes it reads like a work of fiction."- Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) "A remarkable story."- Sydney Morning Herald Review "I literally could not put this book down. It celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit: hope. A Long Way Home is a moving, poignant, and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. One day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off to find his family. Eventually, with the advent of Google Earth, he had the opportunity to look for the needle in a haystack he once called home, and pore over satellite images for landmarks he might recognize or mathematical equations that might further narrow down the labyrinthine map of India. ![]() Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia. At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Now it's Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara-nominated for six Academy Awards! This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his childhood life and home in an incredible journey from India to Australia and back again. Then it became the New York Times bestseller and #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. She writes about trying on Caroline's clothes with confusion and guilt, the somehow obscene act of raking dead leaves and planting bulbs, and rowing until her hands were like leather, and seemingly, necessarily, going on living: "Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.First it was a media sensation. ![]() Caldwell's description of the pain of mourning is precise and heartbreaking. ![]() When Caldwell finally bought her first house, Knapp met her on the front porch the day she took possession, "And while Morelli held onto the dogs and laughed, she picked me up - I outweighed her by ten pounds - and hoisted me, like a sack of grain, over the threshold."īut then Caroline died. Like teenagers, they spent long hours together, then, as the title says, took the long way home so the "infinite conversation" could go on, and phoned one another once they were home. Their days were spent apart, writing, rowing or swimming, reading, until late in the day one or other phoned and they put the dogs in a car to go to the pond. It was not sexual, they never lived together, and both were intimately involved with men (Knapp married her long-time lover Morelli in the last weeks of her life).īut they seemed not to ever get enough of one another. And so I looked at Caroline at the end of that fine day and said, 'You know - after all this, I don't think any man could ever treat me badly again.'"Ĭaldwell writes with breathtaking clarity about what was an extraordinary friendship, almost a love affair, better than a marriage. "So much of what we valued was being played out in those woods, in what we were building with the dogs and with each other. It is in the company of their dogs that Caldwell and Knapp reveal everything to one another, and lose the instinctive reserve that puts all their other relationship on leashes. The dogs are strong characters in Caldwell's book and the rituals of dog-walking an essential element in the women's friendship over a too-brief span of six years.
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