A scorcher of a review worth savoring today: Troy Patterson, writing for The Times, gets his hands on a new book from John Grogan, the mega-selling author of Marley and Me. Those who had the pleasure of reading the first book know it as an extended dirge for a dead pet. The Longest Trip Home turns to the death of the Grogan’s father, and the author’s reluctant journey back to the Catholic church. William Buckley he ain’t; Patterson zings Grogan for doling out globs of “fuzzy spirituality,” and a climactic moment of “moist devotion” which will have the reader holding The Longest Trip Home to his “joyful bosom.”
Read it at The New York Times
