The Story
THE LONG WAY EAST
A novel by Jared Nanke
After learning of his daughter's death, Father Thomas, an Episcopal priest, boards a train in Gallup, New Mexico, bound for Boston.
Over two days and thousands of miles, strangers enter and leave his journey. Conversations begin. Silences linger. Landscapes disappear beyond the glass.
As the train carries him east, Thomas is forced to travel through more than distance. The journey becomes an encounter with grief, memory, faith, estrangement, and the complicated ways human beings find one another when they are least prepared to be found.
THE LONG WAY EAST
Literary Fiction
Written by Jared Nanke
IN ORDINARY TIME
The Long Way East exists within a larger body of interconnected stories by Jared Nanke exploring ordinary lives, faith, loss, community, and the quiet moments through which people become known to one another.