{"product_id":"the-years-along-the-broken-road","title":"The Years Along the Broken Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWhat happens when the person you used to be becomes a stranger?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndrew Thomas has spent more than thirty years building an ordinary life in rural Wisconsin. He fixes cars, comes home to his wife Margaret, and rarely gives much thought to the young man he once was.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen he finds an old photograph.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn it, Andrew is nineteen years old, standing beside a truck with a confidence he doesn't remember possessing. The face is his, but the person staring back at him feels almost unrecognizable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnable to let the photograph go, Andrew begins searching for people who knew him then. An old yearbook, forgotten inscriptions, and conversations with people from his past slowly uncover pieces of a life he no longer remembers clearly—and force him to confront the distance between the future he once imagined and the life he actually built.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the deeper Andrew searches, the more the question begins to change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerhaps the young man in the photograph isn't evidence of everything Andrew failed to become.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerhaps he has been there all along.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Years Along the Broken Road\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a quiet, reflective story about memory, aging, marriage, the lives we imagine for ourselves, and the small acts of kindness that may say more about who we are than the milestones we remember.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFor anyone who has ever looked at an old photograph and wondered, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat happened to the person I used to be?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo purchase a copy of this book in printed and e-book formats, you can click on the logo below:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0HDRH12MJ\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Years Along the Broken Road on Amazon\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/7453\/0869\/files\/pngegg_100x100.png?v=1775832638\" alt=\"The Weight of Open Spaces - Amazon Kindle\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Spaces Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53279879692597,"sku":null,"price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/7453\/0869\/files\/YearsAlongBrokenRoadCover.png?v=1786651102","url":"https:\/\/openspacespublishing.com\/products\/the-years-along-the-broken-road","provider":"Open Spaces Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}