Road Home, Rex Ogle
Road Home, Rex Ogle
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Road Home

Author: Rex Ogle

Narrator: Ramón de Ocampo

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/25/2024


Synopsis

One hot summer afternoon, Rex Ogle’s sexuality is found out and his father gives him an ultimatum: you can be gay, or you can live here, but not both—and you have twenty-four hours to decide. Rex desperately hopes for a reprieve that doesn’t come, and the following day, he leaves. With no place to go, he drives to New Orleans, where he has the phone number of a man he met briefly and kissed once.

This is a story of coming out, a first love that turns to betrayal, assault, and homelessness. Road Home vividly depicts a teenager falling through the net of family and society into a world of hunger, danger, and despair, and reaching a moment of desperate choice on a highway bridge above the Mississippi River. But this is also a story of survival. Intimate, honest, and compelling, it joins Rex Ogle’s award-winning memoirs Free Lunch and Punching Bag in mapping a young adulthood scarred by trauma and illuminated by strength and compassion.

About Rex Ogle

Rex Ogle has had lots of jobs. Some involved waiting tables, moving boxes, or cleaning toilets. Other jobs involved creating stories for Star Wars, LEGO, Power Rangers, Minions, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics. Now Rex is a full-time writer and the authorbehind Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. And he’s written the first book in The Supernatural Society series. Why? Because, while it was fun to clean toilets, it is much more fun to write about monsters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Janet on July 18, 2017

This was the first in a trilogy. The story of a family whose mother ran off on them when they were very young, the dad owned a tavern in a small town in Indiana. The family, the father, a son and two daughters lived in an apartment over the tavern. This first book of the trilogy was the story of Lil......more

Goodreads review by Pam on February 01, 2020

I kept thinking I’ve read this. It seemed so familiar. Not on any of my lists. It is like so many others I’ve read. I kept reading though because I really liked the main character. She reacted like a real person throughout the book.......more

Goodreads review by Elsi on May 31, 2010

Like most of my reviews on Goodreads, I'm not going to bother describing the plot of this book. You can read the summary provided by the publisher right up there in the book description box. I really enjoyed this book. For many years, I avoided romance novels and I'm still not attracted to Harlequin......more

Goodreads review by Mary Beth on January 07, 2009

The Road Home is mindlessly entertaining piece of fluff that most of us enjoy reading once in a while. It is a story of a woman who somewhat lost her way in life and attempted to return to the physical and emotional roots of childhood after her marriage of 14 years failed.......more

Goodreads review by Bcgrad on May 27, 2009

Favorite Quote: "'I'm not eh same person I used to be.' 'None of us are...We change w/the world around us or we break into a thousand pieces.'"......more