“We’re all just hobos on this earth,” says one of the memorable characters met by Buddy, the (anti-) hero of this wonderful novel. “Aren’t we all just passing through?” We are, and how better to make a permanent mark than by recording our progress with vivid story—story as “tonic” for a troubled soul. In The Way to Go Home, Catharine Leggett has built a novel so convincing and affecting, so packed with real people and fascinating event, that I didn’t want to put the book down. I didn’t want it to end, either, so I’m glad to report that it didn’t. Like the very best of fiction, it keeps on going."
Novelist, poet, and critic, Stan Dragland is Professor Emeritus from the University of Western Ontario, author of Deep Too, The Bricoleur & his Sentences, Strangers & Others: Newfoundland Essays, Floating Voice, The Drowned Lands and many more.
"The Way to Go Home is breathtaking for its rich and authentic cadence: characters’ voices ring with a lightness and sweetness of spirit in all the whirl of gritty, agonizing life.
A beautifully told, literary-historical novel, Catharine Leggett illuminates deep strength in times of deep sadness. The Way to Go Home is a warm book on a cold night, a story that makes you want to snuggle right up to it before bed. A tremendous debut."
Jocelyn Cullity is a Professor of English at Truman State University and author of the award-winning, historical novel, Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons, the forthcoming novel, The Envy of Paradise, and numerous short stories.