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They say you can’t go home again, but Raine St. James doesn’t know why anyone would want to.
Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at seventeen. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted, and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine St. James is forced to accept a job teaching at Bramble University in Darlington, the town she’s been publicly bashing for the last decade.
Beth Devoroux was born and raised in Darlington. Despite losing her parents at a young age, she has been nurtured by the people of the town and is well loved by everyone who knows her. She leads a comfortable life with good job at Bramble University, a long-term but closeted relationship, friends that she can count on, and everything she thinks she wants, so why is she so drawn to a rabble-rouser like Raine St. James?
Can Raine and Beth face their pasts and come to terms with their differences in order to have any hope for a future together?
Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at seventeen. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted, and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine St. James is forced to accept a job teaching at Bramble University in Darlington, the town she’s been publicly bashing for the last decade.
Beth Devoroux was born and raised in Darlington. Despite losing her parents at a young age, she has been nurtured by the people of the town and is well loved by everyone who knows her. She leads a comfortable life with good job at Bramble University, a long-term but closeted relationship, friends that she can count on, and everything she thinks she wants, so why is she so drawn to a rabble-rouser like Raine St. James?
Can Raine and Beth face their pasts and come to terms with their differences in order to have any hope for a future together?
About the Author
Rachel and her partner, Susan, are raising their young son in western New York, where during the winter they make the most of the lake effect snow on local ski slopes, a hobby that inspired her second novel, Trails Merge. In the summer, they love to travel and watch their beloved St. Louis Cardinals. Regardless of the season, she always makes time for a good romance, whether she’s reading it, writing it, or living it.
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The Long Way Home,
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"They say you can't go home again, but Raine St. James doesn't know why anyone would want to.Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at seventeen. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine, and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine St. James is forced to accept a job teaching at Bramble University in Darlington, the town she's been publicly bashing for the last decade. Beth Devoreaux was born and raised in Darlington. Despite losing her parents at a young age, she is well loved by everyone who knows her. She leads a comfortable life with a good job at Bramble University, a long-term but closeted relationship, friends that she can count on, and everything she thinks she wants. So why is she so drawn to a rabble-rouser like Raine St. James? Can Raine and Beth face their pasts and come to terms with their differences in order to have any hope for a future together?"
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Awesome book about running away and coming home!,
By Philologus - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Long Way Home (Paperback)
oh boi! Seriously, this was one heck of a book and Rachel Spangler outdid herself on this one.A Long Way Home is the perfect mix between a general topic and romance and I loved every minute I spend with Raine/Rory and Beth at their small midwestern town. This book is a keeper and good for "comfort reading". Without giving too much away: Rachel captured the journey of both women and life in a small town perfectly and whereas former times might have been very black&white about coming out and being gay and living in a small town Rachel did a great job showing how that might slowly change. I loved how Rachel let the "good memories" surface gradually and how she played with the names --- and great secondary characters! The romance was the icing without taking away from everything else. The author has won two Goldie awards for her two books and this one is on my short list for the next award 2011 7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Brings It Home,
By P. Bigelow - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Long Way Home (Paperback)
Raine St. James grew up in Darlington, a small Illinois town, where being a lesbian was not only frowned upon, but was unheard of. At 17, Raine escaped the town to make her way in the big world. She became a successful writer and lecturer by telling her story of growing up in the farming country of the midwest. Now, a decade later, her story is old news, and her articles are no longer selling and no one wants to hear her coming of age story again. Her agent tells her that he has a job for her. She has no choice but to accept it because she is about to be evicted from her apartment in Chicago.There's a problem, though, the job is as a guest lecturer in Darlington.She reluctantly returns to the town that was the cause of Raine reinventing herself to deal with the pain of small-town homophobia. Once on campus, she meets a woman she remembers from high school, Beth, who is all grown up now and irresistible. She reconnects with her high school friends who seem happy to see her. Not everyone, is happy to see her, though. There are still small-minded people in Darlington.Beth tries to tell Raine that not everyone in town has a problem with her. But Raine can't believe that. Slowly, but surely, Raine begins to accept that her friends are really her friends. There is a growing attraction between Raine and Beth, but Beth is with another woman in a very closeted relationship. Spangler's third book explores how we remake ourselves and the consequence of not being true to our real selves. In the case of Raine, her perceived notions of small-town life may have been tainted by being 17. The reality of what she finds when she returns as an adult surprises her and has her wondering if she'd been wrong about her home town, her parents, and her friends. Spangler's story will have you staying up very late as you near the end of the book. Will Raine be able to look at her life now and give up her 17-year-old persona or will she continue to be the town's most infamous daughter, the bad-girl who trashed an entire town to make her reputation? Will Beth be a part of that journey back to herself? While Spangler has a tendency to be repetitious, and you might be tempted to skip those parts, don't. It's all part of trying to make decisions by both Raine and the woman she doesn't want to love, Beth. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Brilliantly written,
By TerryB "Lesfic fan" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Long Way Home (Paperback)
Rory St. James left home and went to Chicago when she was seventeen after her parents ostracized her when she came out. She changed her name to Raine and became a celebrity when she spoke out about her home town. Ten years go by and no one really wants to hear Raine's tales of her youth. She's broke, gets evicted and ends up back in her home town after accepting a teaching job at the local university, where she meets Beth Devoroux.Beth lost her parents in a car accident when she was young and is a librarian at the university. She is gay, in a relationship and deep in the closet. Beth finds herself attracted to Raine, but much prefers it when Raine loses her airs and graces and becomes the Rory of old. Can Raine/Rory sort through their differences to have a future together? This is a brilliant book. One that I couldn't put down until I'd finished it. It's also a book that deserves to be read more than once to get the full effect of the meaning of it. I have all of Rachel's books and her writing is brilliant. This one should follow her other two and win an award. |
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