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Half the Way Home: book review

2/23/2015

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Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and SonHalf the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son by Adam Hochschild
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What a lovely story about a young boy and then man growing up during the tumultuous years of the 60s in a family of great wealth and privilege. The cadence was especially good. The whole book flowed well for me. I never was bored. The author's descriptions of the Eagle Nest - the family summer home in the Adirondacks is very interesting and entertaining - a throw-back to an era lost. The author's relationship with his father is sad, touching, and in the end heat-warming as the author makes peace with all of the confusion his upbringing wrought.

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