Take Me With You
New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde tells the emotional story of an alcoholic reeling from the loss of his son on the journey to finally facing his pain--and forging a path to redemption.
August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year he's spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Philip's ashes instead. An unexpected twist of fate lands August with two extra passengers for his journey, two half-orphans with nowhere else to go.
What none of them could have known was how transformative both the trip--and the bonds that develop between them--would prove, driving each to create a new destiny together.
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As a devoted fan of crime mysteries/thrillers, sometimes all the murder and mayhem just gets to me and I need a feel-good story with kids and doggies. This story was all that and was exactly what I needed, right now. CRH is kind of a master at that. This is the fifth book of hers that I have read, and I can pretty much count on her to give me a great story when I need it.
The book summary kind of introduces the premises for the two different storylines. From the get-go, I wasn’t sure what a “half-orphan” was but soon discovered it was two brothers (12 & 7) who lived with their alcoholic, mechanic, father in a desolate desert town after their mother left them all five years earlier. In exchange for free repairs on a August’s motor home, the father (Wes) asks August to take his kids for three months because he is going to jail to serve a 90 day sentence for his fourth DUI.
Now, if you’re asking yourself what kind of father would let some stranger take his kids, you know exactly what I was thinking and how unbelievable that whole scenario is. If you can suspend belief for the purpose of moving the story along, you will begin to understand just what kind of father Wes is.
Anyway, for the first half of the story, August and the kids spend the summer traveling around from one national park to another. After 90 days, August takes them back to their father. The second half of the story, as well as the second storyline, spans the following eight years and how that one summer changed August and the kids, Seth & Henry, as well as how the relationships and love that they developed back then followed them for the rest of their lives.
The ending came fast and, once again, was just what I wanted and needed. I like CRH and I think I will be a long-standing fan.
The book summary kind of introduces the premises for the two different storylines. From the get-go, I wasn’t sure what a “half-orphan” was but soon discovered it was two brothers (12 & 7) who lived with their alcoholic, mechanic, father in a desolate desert town after their mother left them all five years earlier. In exchange for free repairs on a August’s motor home, the father (Wes) asks August to take his kids for three months because he is going to jail to serve a 90 day sentence for his fourth DUI.
Now, if you’re asking yourself what kind of father would let some stranger take his kids, you know exactly what I was thinking and how unbelievable that whole scenario is. If you can suspend belief for the purpose of moving the story along, you will begin to understand just what kind of father Wes is.
Anyway, for the first half of the story, August and the kids spend the summer traveling around from one national park to another. After 90 days, August takes them back to their father. The second half of the story, as well as the second storyline, spans the following eight years and how that one summer changed August and the kids, Seth & Henry, as well as how the relationships and love that they developed back then followed them for the rest of their lives.
The ending came fast and, once again, was just what I wanted and needed. I like CRH and I think I will be a long-standing fan.