This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the wake of WWII, Rob's father moves the family from Brooklyn to a rundown farmhouse in rural Pond Eddy, New York. Told through the keen eyes of a young boy, The Lower Road, captures the joys and trials of country life: building secret treehouses, dodging snakes, surviving icy winters, and witnessing the slow unraveling of a marriage. At its heart is a mother whose quiet strength and fierce love guide her family through uncertainty and change. By turns funny, tender, and deeply honest, this memoir is a vivid portrait of resilience, sacrifice, and what it means to grow up in the shadow of other people's decisions: learning as Rob did to fall forward.