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The Way Home

Author: George Pelecanos
Price: from $16.49

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Keywords: father and son, life, prison

When President Obama took a summer vacation to Cape Cod in 2009, “The Way Home” by George Pelecanos was one of several books that traveled with him. This bestselling novel examines the relationship between Thomas Flynn and his troubled son, Chris.

In his youth Chris Flynn served a sentence in juvenile prison, but tries to turn his life around and begins working for his father’s company. Stumbling upon a bag of money at a job site, and Chris’s decisions on what to do with it, takes the story in a different direction. George Pelecanos can’t hide his feelings about the youth prison system that shine through this fictional family tale.

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