Home Free: An American Road Trip by Ethan Casey (2013-05-03) - Softcover

In September 2012, author Ethan Casey rented a car in Seattle and drove east. It was the start of a 3 ½-month, 18,000-mile adventure that took him through every region of the contiguous United States. The drive, during and just after the 2012 presidential election, allowed Ethan to see firsthand the country's current political and social landscape and to meet and listen to a wide variety of Americans. Ethan's book holds up a mirror to 21st-century America in the tradition of travelogues like Travels with Charley (1962) by John Steinbeck, Blue Highways (1982) by William Least Heat-Moon, and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945) by Henry Miller. "Ethan Casey is a listener: someone who asks the good questions and then steps back and gives people space to answer. He listened hard and well in his books on Haiti and Pakistan. Now he's listening to an America that's dealing with uncertainty, division, and change, but where Casey still finds reasons for hope in the strengths of the widely varied people he meets." - Paul Rogat Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times