A Long Walk Home

When a child is taught that fiction is truth, villains are heroes, abuse is love, and violence is communication, they inherit a lifelong struggle to overcome the lessons of youth.

A Long Walk Home shares the struggle to live a worthwhile life in the shadows of physical and emotional abuse. The survivor’s journey is about learning to manage the wounds of the past while consciously paving a new way into the future. Scars never truly heal, but there is hope.

In the lifelong quest for peace, acceptance and love, learning to trust and love another person is the ultimate test. Love and trust will eventually prevail, but it can take a lifetime. Love is not a magical solution. Trust is a leap of faith for the faithless. It takes work to find happiness.

Never forgetting the preciousness of your life, even when the outside world strikes you down at every turn, is the first step on a journey in search of true peace and love.

A Long Walk Home is the story of that journey.

Jack Sharkey’s fourth novel, and first in twenty years, takes an unapologetic look at narcissism, drug abuse, physical and emotional exploitation and the power of friendship in a lonely world.