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Joyride is a heartwarming memoir of how a young man reconnects with
his journalist mother both before and after her death through the
archives of her weekly newspaper columns. Author Craig Forrest's
life in print began when he was only five years old. His mother,
Libby, wrote a humor column in the local newspaper in America's
oldest seashore resort town, Cape May, New Jersey. Craig and his
brother, Keith, became frequent subjects of their mother's Erma
Bombeck-like writings. Their mother's other topics came from the
news she gathered while riding around the shore on her
three-wheeled bicycle. Her column, appropriately titled Joyride,
featured useful insights, humorous encounters, and the wit and
wisdom that comes from living each day and raising a family. As he
grew up, Craig learned more about his mother by rereading her work.
When he returned home to care for Libby in the final ravages of Lou
Gehrig's disease, Craig spent the evenings reliving his childhood
through her columns. The writings comforted him as he watched his
mother waste away, and gave him the strength he needed to come to
grips with the possibility of his own death from Hodgkin's disease.
mother-a poignant story reminiscent of Tuesdays with Morrie and The
Color of Water.
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