The Road Home

Eliza Thomas spent years telling herself that her odd jobs and makeshift living spaces were only temporary. One day she woke up to discover that they had become her life. Single and childless in her forties, Thomas made an enormous leap: from a drafty apartment in Boston to a one-room Boy Scout cabin in rural Vermont. There, with hammer and nails, the companionship of her trusted dog, Lily, and the courage to reinvent herself, Eliza set about turning the unfinished cabin into a home--and soons finds--in the beautiful baby girl she adopts from China--that she has a family to go along with it. A story of building up and letting go, of learning to appreciate both solitude and connection, "The Road Home is one woman's chronicle of triumph--and of creating a place to grow up again.