All the Way Home

by Ann Tatlock

Tatlock's first Christy Award winner
First Place, Adult Fiction, Midwest Independent Publishers Association

From a rough section of Los Angeles during the late Depression years, to the civil rights struggles of the 1960s in the South, this novel is a searing portrayal of one family trapped by alcoholism and another living the typical middle class life- but it's not what you would expect Tatlock paints an American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983319650
• ISBN13: 9780983319658
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Iron Stream Media
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Put this on your reading list!

What a wonderfully well written story. I have never read this author before and was pleasantly surprised. There were so many issues for discussion and so much history in the story that I am pushing for this to be on the required reading list at the high school where I work.

A thought-provoking novel

I picked up this novel by Ann Tatlock after I saw that it won a Christy Award. Now I understand why. The writing was deep and thoughtful, the plot was extensive, following two young girls on a journey to overcome racism over a period of thirty years. If you like books that you can read slowly, pondering the vivid descriptions and feeling a part of the characters' lives, you'll enjoy this book.

Story of forgiveness

This book covers two different eras of racial discrimination. When we meet Augie, it's just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Neglected at home, Augie is "adopted" by an American Japanese family. Life is wonderful -- until the Japanese are sent to the camps and Augie loses the family that truely cares about her.Many years later, in the midst of racism against African Americans in the south, Augie and her Japanese "sister" meet once again and together fight against racism.

Heidi's Review

I loved this book and would recommend it for anyone who wants to learn about the different racial struggles our counrty has gone through. I got so caught up in the story I forgot how much history I was learning. I would encourage everyone to read it just for the history background and hopefully you will learn just as much about yourself as I did.

Don't read it cause its Christian

I picked this book up in my library and it is by far and away the best book I have read in a long, long time. I read a wide variety of fiction, legal thrillers, suspense, etc...This book blew me away. I could not put it down and cried my way thru it.Even if you dont' think Christian fiction is your thing, I think that this wonderful book, told a story that was beautifully written, with a wonderful message, but without being "preachy" as some other Christian fiction has a tendency to be.Don't read it because its a Christian novel, read it because its a wonderful story.To