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  • Roadside Lessons of an American Family
  • Written by: Mike Leonard
  • Narrated by: Mike Leonard
  • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins

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The Ride of Our Lives

Written by: Mike Leonard
Narrated by: Mike Leonard
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Publisher's Summary

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It's not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At 87, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack's bride of 60 years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite, pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike, thinking when he took a sabbatical from his job with NBC News so he could pile these two world-class originals along with three of his grown kids and a daughter-in-law into a pair of rented RVs and hit the road for a month?

Mike was thinking that he wanted to give his parents the ultimate family reunion. And so, one February morning, three generations of Leonards set out on their journey under the dazzling Arizona sky. Thirty minutes later, one of the humongous recreational vehicles has an unplanned meeting with a concrete island at a convenience store. Thus begins the adventure of a lifetime, and an absolute gem of a book.

©2006 Mike Leonard (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

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