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A review by sydn3y3
The Road by John Ehle
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
medium-paced
5.0
This was heavy but very beautiful at the same time. I couldn’t put it down, especially in the second half - would they do it? Would they finish the Road? Weatherby’s struggle with how to move forward was palpable throughout. His love of the mountain people was sometimes the only thing driving him, especially as their difficulties multiplied. A true story too, which had me google mapping a lot of the places mentioned in the book - the fact that Hurricane Helene has just pummeled this exact area is sooooo heavy. I can’t imagine what people are dealing with. Mutual aid will be the only option to move forward for many, many people in the area - we must lean on each other.
Some favorite lines:
“But I love you, too. I love you because of so many different reasons that I love you in different ways. It’s like a spring or a place in the creek where children have dropped colored stones, and as the water ripples, you don’t know, you can’t say what color it is.”
“I’ve got so much to be pleased about it burdens me.”
“He stopped on the path and stood there a minute, listening to the birds and staring off at the farmed mountains, speculating in his mind about the outland places of the earth and wondering how men there could know themselves if they had no mountains to judge themselves by.”
Some favorite lines:
“But I love you, too. I love you because of so many different reasons that I love you in different ways. It’s like a spring or a place in the creek where children have dropped colored stones, and as the water ripples, you don’t know, you can’t say what color it is.”
“I’ve got so much to be pleased about it burdens me.”
“He stopped on the path and stood there a minute, listening to the birds and staring off at the farmed mountains, speculating in his mind about the outland places of the earth and wondering how men there could know themselves if they had no mountains to judge themselves by.”