August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his 19-year-old son died. Every year he’s spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Philip’s ashes instead. An unexpected twist of fate lands August with two extra passengers for his journey, two half-orphans with nowhere else to go.
What none of them could have known was how transformative both the trip – and the bonds that develop between them- would prove, driving each to create a new destiny together.
Paying It Forward Though I am new to the writing of Catherine Ryan Hyde, after reading Take Me With You, I must say I am impressed. With an earnest and unembellished style, Hyde writes with the clear message that compassion is contagious: when you treat others with decency and respect, you just might receive decency, respect, or even love, in return. In Take Me With You this message is made manifest in the story of August Schroeder, a recovering alcoholic, who befriends two troubled boys during a trip to…
A master-class of a novel about enduring relationships and brotherly love. Catherine Ryan Hyde has once again written a fabulous story in this novel, interwoven with all of her favourite pass times. It features two young boys, their alcoholic father and a recovering alcoholic who is a passer by who gets tricked into taking the two boys on an epic journey in a camper van, fulfilling a deep need for himself.It’s an absolute cracker of a story. August Schroeder, the passer by, is a teacher grieving for his 19-year-old son who died in an automobile…