The Long Hot Walk

By Deborah McCarroll

Eight-year-old Debbie McCarroll is walking an empty stretch of New Mexico desert with her mother Mary and the turbulent ocean of people raging through Mary's head.?The odyssey will lead to a colorful cast of saints and sinners packed into a boarding house for Navaho women. It will lead to a parade of institutions, estranged siblings and a murdered rooster, all under the looming shadow of Mary's escalating illness.We walked the streets of Albuquerque, thick with people and belching buses. We walked past chili farms and small, desolate towns. We walked on until civilization faded away and all that was left was sagebrush, barbed wire and the wild desert air.The Long Hot Walk beautifully illuminates the unshakable mother and daughter bond through mental illness, poverty, and loss with sweetness and wit. An off-kilter memoir with a tender heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692332693
• ISBN13: 9780692332696
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Studio Pacific
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.