The Long Way Home (E. Robert Dunn Play Anthologies)
Dunn, E. Robert
Synopsis "The Long Way Home (E. Robert Dunn Play Anthologies)"
Sometimes the longest way home is the one that brings a family back together. On his sixtieth birthday, architect Grant Long expects the usual family celebration. Instead, his aging parents accidentally set fire to their kitchen—and suddenly Cora and Ulysses Long are moving into Grant’s San Antonio home with him and his husband, Isaiah. For Grant, who has spent his life believing every problem can be solved with enough planning, design, and determination, having his strong-willed mother and stubborn retired-Navy father under the same roof is a challenge he never anticipated. As the weeks unfold, the Long family discovers that living together has a way of bringing old wounds, long-held beliefs, and uncomfortable truths to the surface. Grant's sister Virginia is dealing with the aftermath of a twenty-eight-year marriage destroyed by her husband's infidelity. But Virginia is ready to move forward—and a new relationship with Marcus may offer her a future she never expected. Then Brian, her former husband, appears, hoping to reclaim a place in her life. His return forces Virginia to confront a difficult question: Can you forgive someone without taking them back? Meanwhile, Cora must confront something even more difficult: the life she imagined for her son Grant is not the life he chose. Her deeply held beliefs have kept her from fully accepting Grant and Isaiah's marriage, even as Isaiah quietly demonstrates what their twenty-year relationship truly means—love, compromise, patience, and the small acts of kindness that make a marriage endure. With its sharp sibling humor, family squabbles, unexpected tenderness, and moments of genuine heart, The Long Way Home is a comedy-drama about what happens when the people we love become impossible to avoid—and impossible not to love.
