num_pages: 245
description: Thorndike was a 24-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador when he met Clarisa, a vibrant and lovely Salvadoran girl, just 19. They fell in love, married, and in 1970 their son Janir was born. For the first year Clarisa was devoted to her baby and rarely left his side. But slowly she began a terrifying slide into schizophrenia, behaving in ways that endangered his son’s life. Fearing for his safety, Thorndike made the wrenching decision to bring Janir back to the United States and raise him alone. Another Way Home is the account of their life together: their tender moments, their pitched battles, their heartbreaking reunions with Clarisa.
language: English
title: Another Way Home: A Single Father's Story
titlecomplete: Another Way Home: A Single Father's Story
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Crown