The Journey is Home, John Sam Jones
The Journey is Home, John Sam Jones
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The Journey is Home
Notes from a life on the edge

Author: John Sam Jones

Narrator: John Sam Jones

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Andrews UK

Published: 08/24/2021


Synopsis

In this clear and absorbing memoir, John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It is story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period studying at Aberystwyth, to a scholarship at Berkley in California as the AIDS epidemic began to take hold before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to work in community engagement and sexual health. A journey of becoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences with award-winning books and the desire to become a campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales. The adventure of running a guest house in Barmouth - where he eventually became Mayor - with his husband, a German academic, who he had married after a long partnership.
Three weeks after the European Referendum they put the business on the market and moved to Germany. John is still on that journey...

Reviews

4.5 stars A beautiful & meaningful memoir of identity, family, belonging, & community. [What I liked:] •I like the writing style. Easy to read, at points beautiful; it has a nice cadence & rhythm. •I resonated with Jones’s pained feelings about the divisions & ugliness Brexit stirred up. There are a l......more