Cover of The Long Road to Morning by v. o. kapelman

The Long Road to Morning

A Novel

A coming-of-age story set against the sweep of history.

Sample blurb. In a town on the edge of a collapsing empire, fourteen-year-old Elias Varga dreams of leaving. Over one turbulent decade of war, loss and first love, he learns what he must carry with him and what he must leave behind. A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel.

“A tender, unflinching portrait of growing up in turbulent times.”

— Sample Review Quarterly

“Historical fiction with a pulse. I read it in two sittings.”

— A Sample Reader

Excerpt

Sample excerpt.

The road out of town began as a rumor and ended, Elias would later think, as a promise. That morning it was only mud, and the sound of his mother calling him back from the gate.

“You’ll catch cold,” she said, though they both knew it was not the cold she feared.

About the book

Sample text. Set between 1912 and 1922, the novel follows one boy’s passage from childhood to adulthood against the collapse of old worlds. It draws on family stories and the author’s own memories of leaving home.

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