In The Longest
Road, one of America’s most respected writers takes an epic journey across
America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides
a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.
Standing on a wind-scoured
island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo
schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban
immigrants in Key West, six thousand miles away. And a question began to take
shape: How does the United States, peopled by every race on earth, remain
united? Caputo resolved that one day he’d drive from the nation’s southernmost
point to the northernmost point reachable by road, talking to everyday
Americans about their lives and asking how they would answer his question.
So it was that in 2011, in an
America more divided than in living memory, Caputo, his wife, and their two
English setters made their way in a truck and classic trailer (hereafter known
as “Fred” and “Ethel”) from Key West, Florida, to Deadhorse, Alaska, covering
16,000 miles. He spoke to everyone from a West Virginia couple saving souls to
a Native American shaman and taco entrepreneur. What he found is a story that
will entertain and inspire readers as much as it informs them about the state
of today’s United States, the glue that holds us all together, and the
conflicts that could cause us to pull apart.
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