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Author Caputo, Philip.

Title The longest road : overland in search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean / Philip Caputo.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  973.93 CAP    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  973.93 CAPUTO    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  973.73 C    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  973.93 CAP    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  973.93 CAP    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973.93 CAP    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Non Fiction  973.93 CAPUTO    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.93 CAPUTO    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.93 CAP    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.93 CAP    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note Map on lining papers.
Summary One of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large. Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban immigrants in Key West, six thousand miles away. And a question began to take shape: How does the United States, peopled by every race on earth, remain united? Caputo resolved that one day he'd drive from the nation's southernmost point to the northernmost point reachable by road, talking to everyday Americans about their lives and asking how they would answer his question. So it was that in 2011, in an America more divided than in living memory, Caputo, his wife, and their two English setters made their way in a truck and classic trailer (hereafter known as "Fred" and "Ethel") from Key West, Florida, to Deadhorse, Alaska, covering 16,000 miles. He spoke to everyone from a West Virginia couple saving souls to a Native American shaman and taco entrepreneur. What he found is a story that will entertain and inspire readers as much as it informs them about the state of today's United States, the glue that holds us all together, and the conflicts that could cause us to pull apart.--Publisher's description.
Traces the author's 2011 road trip from the southernmost to the northernmost points of the United States to experience firsthand the country's diversity and political tensions in the face of a historic economic recession.
Subject Caputo, Philip -- Travel -- United States.
United States -- Description and travel.
National characteristics, American.
United States -- Biography.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
ISBN 9780805094466 hardback
0805094466 hardback
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