The Only Way Home

By: Jeanette Minniti

Narrated by: Adam Schulmerich

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League First Place Award in Historical Fiction!

Desperate times. Danger on the rails. A journey to save a family.

It is 1933 inside a sweltering courtroom in Macon, Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Robert sits on a bench awaiting sentencing after being picked up for vagrancy and spending a night in jail. He left his home in Illinois with a neighborhood friend to ride the rails and find work to help their families. The friend turned back, too afraid to face the perils ahead. But going back empty-handed isn’t an option for Robert.

The Only Way Home is the story of one boy’s determination to survive loss and hardship to help his family—and how fate and a violin touch the course of his life.

Fans of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens and Sold on a Monday by Kristina Morris will love this story set during the Great Depression of a fatherless boy fighting to keep his family together.

Awards

The Only Way Home received the Colorado Authors League First Place Gold Award for Historical Fiction, a Second Place Silver CIPA EVVY Award in Literary & Contemporary Fiction, and a Third Place Bronze CIPA EVVY Award in Historical Fiction. Jeanette Minniti also received an Honorable Mention Award from Readers' Favorite in Historical Fiction-Events/Eras.

©2021 Jeanette Minniti (P)2023 Jeanette Minniti

Memories of Dad.

This story seemed so familiar. I had heard so many similar stories like this from my father, uncles. and grandfather. sad and diffult to imagine but very real.

Solid story

This book was ok. The story was very straightforward, no surprises, no build up or tension. It's like a slow summer afternoon. But I have to say, if your life is hectic and your looking for a slower more calm book, this will do the trick.