Slow Way Home

“Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel.” — --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
“Slow Way Home is a gem — both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read.” — --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
“Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is a fine book.” — Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Nora, Nora
“A gentle story suffused with brutal truths, almost fable-like in its resonant simplicity…..a journey well worth taking.” — --Tim Farrington, author of The Monk Downstairs
“In a remarkably consistent narrative voice, Morris takes us along for a moving, funny ride…” — --Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves
“Slow Way Home is a journey of the human spirit and its themes… make it a novel for the ages.” — --Richard Paul Evans, author of The Christmas Box
“Master storyteller Michael Morris has delivered another stunning novel….touching, truthful, and beautifully written. It is not to be missed!” — --Lynne Hinton, author of Friendship Cake
“a compulsively readable novel with many fine passages on the importance of home and the comforts of faith.” — Booklist
“[A] tour de force… told in a Southern style that invites readers in and asks them to stay awhile.” — --Gadsden Times (Northeast AL)
“Michael Morris is someone to watch .. .[Slow Way Home is] courageous and heartbreaking and moving….” — --The Birmingham News
“Brandon Willard may well be one of the most endearing novel narrators since Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.” — -— Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 9/28/03
“[B]oth contemporary and timeless…read the book and savor for yourself Brandon’s redemption ….” — -— Mobile Register, 9/27/03
“[E]motional and fast-paced . . . the social issues covered make this an intelligent book for debate.” — -— Southern Scribe, 9/03
“Morris excels in creating the child’s voice…. an inspiring portrait of a true survivor.” — BookPage
“… echoes of Harper Lee…or of Flannery O’Connor’s Southern grotesques . . . or even of Huck Finn…. ” — Washington Post
“An emotionally charged work that is as timely as it is touching.” — --Dallas Morning News
“Slow Way Home is one of those rare finds….it should become a classic.” — --Tampa Tribune (Florida)
“…impressive achievement…entertaining and affecting.” — --St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/28/03
“Morris’ insightful book gives voice to the struggle millions of grandparents and the grandchildren in their care face everyday.” — --Donna M Butts, Executive Director, Generations United