Category: Memoir Publisher: Little BIG Man Press
ISBN-10: 0615776027
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 300
Copyright: May, 2013
ISBN-13: 9780615776026
Price: $7.99 (eBook)
A father and his sons take off on a 5000-mile road trip to rediscover their connections to each other and the fathers who came before them.
A father sets out on a 5000-mile road trip, the one he never had the guts to take as a young man, the one he hopes will spark a new chapter in his life. But the once-delayed journey now takes on new meaning when he’s forced to confront his family’s unsettled past, and face the reality that every man, including his own two sons, will eventually compare his life with the fathers who came before him.
Chicago writer, David W. Berner, takes to the road for a journey he hopes will rekindle a level of inspiration. After re-reading Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD, the iconic American road trip story and the book he cherished as a teenager, he finds himself confronting an unexpected examination of his place in the world and the most important role of his life – fatherhood.
ANY ROAD WILL TAKE YOU THERE: A Journey of Fathers and Sons is a heartwarming and heartbreaking story told with humor and grace, revealing the generational struggles and triumphs of being a dad, and the beautiful but imperfect ties that connect all of us.
Professional Reviews
From UNDER THE GUM TREE, editor Janna Marlies Maron
"Berner drives his reader far beyond the father-son road trip, seamlessly navigating the often-convoluted roads of memory and expectation to earnestly examine questions of what it means to be his father's son...and the father of sons. Honest, raw, shameless. If ON THE ROAD is for a generation lost, ANY ROAD WILL TAKE YOU THERE is for a generation looking to be found."
Mike Robinson, The Jack Kerouac Project
"David examines the issues that entangle father and sons by undertaking a Jack Kerouac inspired road trip with his two sons and a best friend. Long a fan of Kerouac’s iconic novel ON THE ROAD, Berner began to write this book in the very house where Kerouac once lived and wrote. I met Berner in this house when he was the writer in residence at what is now the famed Kerouac Project in Orlando, Florida. Here, Kerouac’s spirit inspired Berner to complete his manuscript. His readings of excerpts at various events were always wonderful and a little tease for the great stories told in ANY ROAD WILL TAKE YOU THERE.”
TRUE STORY. Bella survived an abusive powerbroker father with organized crime ties, a drug-addicted mother and a physically/sexually abusive brother. Shocking & inspirational. When she couldn't cry, she tattooed a crying angel to cry for her.
A passionate and poignant memoir written by a woman whose life has been guided by the words: "I am here to learn how to love well." The book is a deep examination of relationships, family, motivation, and honoring of the Self.
After a long awaited weekend visitation caused by false allegations of sexual abuse, Glen got to see his children for the first time in over two months. He promised them that they would never be apart again and then they disappeared.
