The Road to Grace
The Walk Series
I had a dream last night that McKale came to me.
“Where are you?” she asked.
“South Dakota,” I replied.
She started at me without speaking and I realized that she didn’t mean my location.
“I don’t know,” I said.
“Just keep walking.”
About the Book
The third novel in the New York Times bestselling series about an advertising executive who loses everything and embarks on a walk across America: “definitely a journey worth taking” (Booklist).
Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, left behind everything he knew and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. As he treks the nearly 1,000 miles between South Dakota and St. Louis on foot, it’s the people he meets along the way who give the journey its true meaning: a mysterious woman who follows Alan for nearly a hundred miles, the ghost hunter searching graveyards for his wife, and the elderly Polish man who gives Alan a ride and shares a story that Alan will never forget.
Full of hard-won wisdom and truth, this is a moving stand-alone story as well as the continuation of the unforgettable bestselling Walk series. The Road to Grace is a compelling and inspiring novel about hope, healing, grace, and the meaning of life.
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Prologue
I had a dream last night that McKale came to me.
“Where are you?” she asked.
“South Dakota,” I replied.
She started at me without speaking and I realized that she didn’t mean my location.
“I don’t know,” I said.
“Just keep walking.”
Alan Christoffersen’s diary
A few years ago I was walking through a Seattle shopping mall when a woman at a kiosk peddling discounted airfare shouted to me, “Sir, if you have a minute, I can save you nearly half on your travel!”
“Thank you,” I politely replied, “but I’m really not interested.”
Undeterred, she asked, “If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?”
I stopped and looked at her. “Home.” I turned and walked away.
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I suppose I’m as unlikely a candidate to walk across the country as you could find. I was never one who, as Steinbeck wrote, was afflicted with “the urge to be someplace else.”
That’s not to say I haven’t traveled. I’ve done my fair share of it and I have the passport stamps to prove it. I’ve seen the Great Wall of China, the Hermitage in Russia, and the Roman Catacombs. Truthfully, all that travel wasn’t my idea. My wife, McKale, wanted to see the world, and I wanted to see her happy. Actually, I just wanted to see her, so I went along. The foreign locales were just different backdrops for my picture of her.
Her. Every day I miss her. I may be a closet homebody, but life has taught me that home was never a place. Home was her. The day McKale died, I lost my home.
Self-Published May 8, 2012
Published March 5, 2013
Simon & Schuster
Length: 256 pages
ISBN:
- 9781451628180
- 9781451628289
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