The Long Journey Home
A Memoir

After reading "Look Me In the Eye" by John Elder Robison and then "Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs (and becoming a major fan of Burroughs and his other books), how could I NOT read "The Long Journey Home: A Memoir" by Margaret Robison? After reading this memoir, it is apparent why Burro......more

Many of us have read Ms. Robison's sons' memoirs on growing up in their highly dysfunctional family. Long Journey Home is their mother's response. The book is a bit choppy and chaotic, but there are moments throughout that remind you that the author is a poet - landscape or moments vividly described......more

Until last week I was not aware of this memoir written by the mother of Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison. I discovered it while searching for something else on the catalog of my public library. I have read memoir by both Burroughs and Robison. Initially I thought it would be interesting to......more

This book is the occasionally hyper-dramatic but always eerily compelling account of how Robison managed her way through life, despite complications and contradictions, navigating anger, betrayal, loss, happiness and success. Some passages, standing alone, would receive 5 stars, and in those moments......more

3.5 stars I have been a Burroughs fan for years, but I just recently discovered the memoirs written by his mother and brother. Running with Scissors is so crazy dysfunctional that one cannot help diving deeper to discover how "truth" may be altered by various perspectives. It was interesting to see t......more