Hurtling Toward Happiness by Claudia Johnson (.ePUB)
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Hurtling Toward Happiness: A Mother and Teenage Son’s Road Trip from Blues to Bonding In a Really Small Car by Claudia Johnson
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Overview: When Claudia’s sixteen-year-old son, Ross, announces he’s quitting high school and leaving home a year early, she panics. They’ve become so disconnected that she’s afraid she’ll lose him forever. Then a small miracle happens—they discover they have the same escape fantasy, to head west on I-10 to where she grew up, in Corpus Christi, Houston, and Kingsville, Texas. So, on a tight budget, they travel from Tallahassee to Texas and back, 2,400 miles in one week.
But the distance they cover transcends the miles that they drive. Along the way Claudia recounts the sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, but ultimately courageous Texas family story that defined her childhood and is Ross’s heritage—a story that centers on her own mother’s escape from a family history of dysfunction, alcoholism, and abuse to create a life for herself and a loving home for her children. As Claudia and Ross spend time together, sharing stories and laughter, she’s able to see more clearly the young man her son has become, and he takes responsibility for his unhappiness and finds a solution. This is both a page-turning memoir of their journey and a spirited testament to the crucial bond between mothers and children.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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