But her younger brother, Robby, becomes increasingly discontent, leading him to seek fulfillment through other vices. After a period of living in an orphanage, Ella gradually starts to hold her own.
Growing up in an unstable home with a drunk, PTSD-ridden father and a neglectful mother, Ella and her siblings had to learn to care for themselves. The Long Road Home is a heartbreaking biographical account by Ella Anderson, whose brother lost his life under mysterious circumstances. Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite Be sure to tell the author who you are, what organization you are with, how many books you need, how they will be used, and the number of reviews, if any, you would be able to provide. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email.
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She then moves across the border and settles in Montreal, a unique city with a long history of transnational Black activism, but one that does not easily accept the unfamiliar and the foreign into the fold. Then she revisits her four American homes, each of which reveals something peculiar about the relationship between American racism and democracy: Boston, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the American Revolution Athens, Ohio, where the white working class and the white liberal meet Chicago, Illinois, the great Black metropolis and Eugene, Oregon, the western frontier. She was often the Only One-the only Black person in so many white spaces-in a country that perpetuates the national mythology of multiculturalism. More than a century later, Thompson still feels the echoes and intergenerational trauma of North American slavery. She begins in Shrewsbury, Ontario, one of the termini of the Underground Railroad and the place where members of her own family found freedom. In The Long Road Home, Thompson follows the roots of Black identities in North America and the routes taken by those who have crisscrossed the world’s longest undefended border in search of freedom and belonging.
But her decade-long journey across Canada and the US transformed her relationship to both countries, and to the very idea of home. When Debra Thompson moved to the United States in 2010, she felt like she was returning to the land of her ancestors, those who had escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America.