The Long Way Home

Alex Parker

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First draftLiterary fiction

The Long Way Home

A quiet novel about distance, memory, and the roads that bring us back.

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Total chapters: 12
Total pages: 171
Word count: 42,680
Characters, no spaces: 213,406
Characters, with spaces: 254,781

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Some journeys begin with a departure. This one began with a return. After seventeen years away, Mara Bell comes home to Stillwater carrying little more than a half-finished letter and the uneasy knowledge that the town remembers a different version of her.

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When a winter storm closes the only road out of Stillwater, Mara must confront the family she left behind and decide which parts of the past are worth carrying forward.