Long Distances

From the award winning author Jewell Parker RhodesThree thousand miles. That's how far Nate has to drive to get to Los Angeles, to satisfy the dreams of his wife Della and find a new life for the two of them and their daughters. But cruising through Indiana in the early hours of morning with the rest of the car asleep, Nate can't help but wonder how everything happened – how their love had grown strange and distant, how he'd decided to abandon his mother with no one to look after her, how he'd lost so much of the certainty he once had. Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes develops an expansive narrative within the length of a short story of a man getting closer to a new home, but farther from his true self. From the award winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes Three thousand miles. That's how far Nate has to drive to get to Los Angeles, to satisfy the dreams of his wife Della and find a new life for the two of them and their daughters. But cruising through Indiana in the early hours of morning with the rest of the car asleep, Nate can't help but wonder how everything happened how their love had grown strange and distant, how he'd decided to abandon his mother with no one to look after her, how he'd lost so much of the certainty he once had. Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes develops an expansive narrative within the length of a short story of a man getting closer to a new home, but farther from his true self. This book examines the not unrealistic possibility that a certain group of organized American Citizens decided that there was in fact a real moral hazard that awaited those culprits in and out of our government and that this country was on a collision course with a new reality and relationship with its citizens. A political thriller concerning mortgage fraud; a corrupt government and the citizens of our country who were willing to fight back