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My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir
Written by:
Mark Whitaker
Narrated by:
Robertson Dean
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November 2011
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11 hours 35 minutes
Summary
Mark Whitaker's father, 'Syl' Whitaker, was the charismatic grandson of slaves who grew up the child of black undertakers from Pittsburgh and went on to become a groundbreaking scholar of Africa. His mother, Jeanne Theis, was a shy World War II refugee from France whose father, a Huguenot
pastor, helped hide thousands of Jews from the Nazis and Vichy police.
They met in the mid-1950s, when he was a college student and she was his professor, and they carried on a secret romance for more than a year before marrying and having two boys. Eventually they split in a bitter divorce that was followed by decades of unhappiness as his mother coped with self-recrimination and depression while trying to raise her sons by
herself, and his father spiraled into an alcoholic descent that destroyed his once meteoric career.Based on extensive interviews and documentary research as well as his own personal recollections and insights, My Long Trip Home is a reporter's search for the factual and motional truth about a complicated and compelling family, a successful adult's exploration of how he rose from a turbulent childhood to a groundbreaking career, and,
ultimately, a son's haunting meditation on the nature of love, loss, identity, and forgiveness.
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