The Long Journey Home: A Memoir
Advanced Praise forThe Long Journey Home“Margaret Robison has written, with a simple beauty and elegance that belie a powerful and unflinching honesty, about surviving mental illness, abuse, and the constrictions of womanhood in an era when all three were sorely misunderstood.  A striking memoir.”—Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, author of Willow Weep for Me:  A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression“After decades of feeling silenced, like so many women of the 1950s, Margaret Robison reclaims her own story. The Long Journey Home is a moving testament to the power of language in confronting the frightening, inchoate experience of madness.  But it is also a wistful, richly textured evocation of rural Southern life amidst a cascade of characters both distressing and unforgettable.  Robison’s fortitude, candor, and lack of rancor offer a refreshing alternative to many memoirs.”—Gail A. Hornstein, author of Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meaning of Madness“This is a haunting book, laced with desperation and urgency. The author’s sorely tested faith in the power of writing to heal the soul is an inspiration to any writer. And for memoirists such as myself, she raises the large question of who has the right to tell our stories. For fans of Augusten Burroughs’s Running With Scissors, the mother’s account of her life is an invitation to enter the labyrinthine world of Rashomon.”—Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk