A best-selling prequel to the best-selling Marley & Me offers the author's account of growing up in a devout Catholic family, the author's struggle to conform to his parents' expectations and religious beliefs and what it means to break away and to find one's way home once again. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. "As he did in Marley, Grogan makes readers feel they have a seat at the family dinner table....4 stars." --People John Grogan, author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, Marley & Me, once again takes readers into his past, his memories, and his heart in The Longest Trip Home--a funny and poignant memoir of faith, family, and identity. A New York Times bestseller in its own right, The Longest Trip Home has earned glowing accolades from the critics ("Genuinely heartrending," --New York Times "Wry and witty," --Washington Post; "Entertaining, funny, and, best of all, always honest at its core," --St. Louis Post-Dispatch). And, just as Marley & Me was more than simply "a dog book," John Grogan's Longest Trip is much, much more than your typical story of a boy's coming-of-age.