Reese Clark has great parents, two younger sisters, a beautiful girl who is interested in him and the church. Life is perfect. Stacy comes from a different situation. Her father has abandoned her family and her mother works two jobs to support Stacy and her brother Brad. She thinks that Reese's family might have the answers to life's questions that Stacy is looking for. Then tragedy strikes the Clark family.
Overcome by pain, Reese pulls away from everyone he loves. Stacy is confused by his example and his lack of testimony at a time when his beliefs should give him comfort.
"Troubled by these and other questions, Stacy found herself afflicted by the doubts her father had planted long ago about the LDS church. On the one side, she weighed the comforting feeling she had experienced herself the past few days. On the other hung the conflicting pain Reese's behavior had invoked. Hanging in the balance was her future."
This is a really good book. I am a fan of Cheri Crane's other novels and I enjoyed this one as well. As I read, I thought about my own testimony and the basis of it. The back of the book sums up what we can learn from it:
"A story of forgiveness, renewal, and the importance of the choices we make at crucial times in our lives, The Long Road Home shows how we each need the strength of our own testimony to lead us back home."
