Something for the journey

"Something for the Journey outlines the tension between the human yearning to be free and the yearning for home. These polar impulses define and motivate the characters with such clarity, we cannot help wishing they will somehow arrive at, depart for, or stay nestled in the bosom of whatever it is they need to keep them whole. It is as though the residents of Winesburg, Ohio, had picked up, separately, and moved to the northern California coast, there to be haunted, no matter where subsequent travels may take them, by something they cannot quite remember."--BOOK JACKET.