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A Long Winding Path
A Long Winding Path is an absorbing account in the lives of Michael Leonard and Elizabeth Porter. The book chronicles various twists and turns in ultimately revealing the intertwined fates of the two. The book traces Michael’s youth in rural North Carolina, offering a window into life for blacks in the 1950s. It provides a feeling for Michael’s struggles during the tumultuous times of segregation and Jim Crow. The reader is introduced to Nesie, his childhood crush as well as star-crossed lover. The obvious natural attraction between the two could not be ignored.
The book examines Michael’s metamorphosis to adulthood. Driven by the civil rights movement, Michael interrupts his college education. He marries what he believes is his love of a lifetime only to find tragedy and distress. Mercifully, a twist of fate temporarily places Nesie back into Michael’s life. Sadly their reunion seemed to offer false hope however, events beyond his control would influence future course of events. Fate was about to teach Michael the meaning of the word serendipity. Fate was also going to familiarize him with the name Elizabeth Porter.
The book demonstrates how the zig-zag of life’s experiences teaches Michael just when he was confident in knowing all of life’s answers the universe flipped the proverbial script. He learned people come into our lives at the right time because they are meant to. Michael’s journey is filled with heartache, sorrow, tears, joy, failure, and most important of all love. For Michael and Elizabeth, life’s trek was a long winding path. Similar to most journeys, there are good roads, bad roads, detours, wrong turns, and too many hazards to count. Heart wrenching pain and inconvenience is also a pesky part of life’s truth, but despite distractions they stayed the course and kept going. They stayed the course and found each other. They stayed the course and found unconditional love.
This is a riveting story of tenacity, family, destiny and love. The storyline demonstrates how a palpable connection between people never dies. Despite life’s impediments, a true bond is never really broken; life simply happens.
The book examines Michael’s metamorphosis to adulthood. Driven by the civil rights movement, Michael interrupts his college education. He marries what he believes is his love of a lifetime only to find tragedy and distress. Mercifully, a twist of fate temporarily places Nesie back into Michael’s life. Sadly their reunion seemed to offer false hope however, events beyond his control would influence future course of events. Fate was about to teach Michael the meaning of the word serendipity. Fate was also going to familiarize him with the name Elizabeth Porter.
The book demonstrates how the zig-zag of life’s experiences teaches Michael just when he was confident in knowing all of life’s answers the universe flipped the proverbial script. He learned people come into our lives at the right time because they are meant to. Michael’s journey is filled with heartache, sorrow, tears, joy, failure, and most important of all love. For Michael and Elizabeth, life’s trek was a long winding path. Similar to most journeys, there are good roads, bad roads, detours, wrong turns, and too many hazards to count. Heart wrenching pain and inconvenience is also a pesky part of life’s truth, but despite distractions they stayed the course and kept going. They stayed the course and found each other. They stayed the course and found unconditional love.
This is a riveting story of tenacity, family, destiny and love. The storyline demonstrates how a palpable connection between people never dies. Despite life’s impediments, a true bond is never really broken; life simply happens.
322 pages, Paperback
Published September 27, 2017
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