Hurtling Toward Happiness: A Mother and Teenage Son’s Road Trip from Blues to Bonding In a Really Small Car
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N5TVW4M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 435 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Funny, Wise, Bighearted Story of a Bonding Road Trip—and the Healing Power of Human ConnectionWhen Claudia’s sixteen-year-old son, Ross, announces he’s quitting high school and leaving home a year early, she panics because they’re so disconnected she’s afraid she’ll lose him forever. 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. 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 path-breaking journey from a famil
Be warned."Cole Bolton, editor in chief, The Onion"Hurtling toward Happiness is a heartwarming and humorous journey through distant memories, the open road, and the complex joy of family. Its prescription for estrangement is a road trip with music, conversation, truth telling, and adventure. Frankly, I have never read a more honest and moving exploration of the delicate yet all but unbreakable skein of family attachments that makes us who we are and teaches us, if we are lucky, how to love unselfishly." Charles Gaines, bestselling and award-winning author. I couldn’t put it down. “Hurtling toward Happiness is medicine for mothers w