Book Review: The Way Home

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The Way Home
Author: George Pelecanos
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (May 12, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0316156493
Book Source: Publisher

Tom Flynn isn't sure exactly how he came to lose his son. Chris Flynn was once an ordinary high school student who got average grades and played football and basketball. Then he seemed to split into two people, Good Chris and Bad Chris. Bad Chris got in fights, smoked increasing amounts of marijuana, and committed vandalism and robbery. His crimes escalated until he was placed into Unit 5 of the Pine Ridge Youth Rehabilitation Facility. While Pine Ridge is a jail in all but name, and his time there changes Chris and forges relationships that will stay with him for the rest of his life. Once out of Pine Ridge he is slowly rebuilding a sort of life for himself when, out on a job for his father's carpet business, he and his partner stumble across a hidden satchel of money. Soon Chris finds himself being drawn back towards a life of crime and violence, and he'll need the help of his father and his Unit 5 friends to make things right.

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