Lori Lansens

In the spirit of "White Oleander" and "The Color Purple" comes a heartbreaking and page-turning story about an 80-year-old woman who confronts and relives her life when a five-year-old girl is abandoned on her doorstep.

A Novel

Rush Home Road

A woman recalls her long and eventful life while caring for the five-year-old girl who is abandoned on her trailer park doorstep.

Jan Talkington

I'm not sure how I hadn't come across this book before, but I am glad I found it now. It's rare to read a 500 + book and be disappointed when I see the end is near. I was drawn into this story and these people and enjoyed it all.

Erin G.

Ryan Mateyk

When 5-year old Sharla Cody is dumped on the doorstep of Addy Shadd, a 70-year old woman living in a trailer park, Addy does not know how completely her life is about to change. She's hardly used to company and the troubled Sharla is not the sweet, beautiful angel she had envisioned. Over time, Addy and Sharla form a bond that neither of them expected-and Sharla begins to undergo a transformation under Addy's patient and loving care. But much to Addy's surprise and dismay, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own tumultuous childhood. As she reminisces about her days growing up in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid 1800s, she remembers her family and her first love and confronts the painful experience that drove her away from home, never to return. Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.

Rush Home Road A Novel

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