Walking The Wrong Way Home by Mandy Haynes

Walking The Wrong Way Home by Mandy Haynes

Walking The Wrong Way Home takes you inside the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.

Between the pages you'll meet Penny, an eighty-seven year old widow who sleeps in her red shoes, Jimmy, a quiet auto mechanic whose memories are never silent, Jewel, a young girl who sees beauty everywhere, even though she's lost almost everything, and Willie, a thirteen-year-old who faces his worst fears only to find out that the truth is scarier than any haint or ghost story he's ever imagined.

There's Elma and Roy, a couple who've been married for over forty years. Elma realizes on her sixty-third birthday that it's not too late to live her life, but it takes Roy two weeks to notice.

Spanning nearly twenty decades, the struggles and victories these characters face are timeless as they all work towards the same goal. A place to feel safe, a place to call home.

"It may be fiction but it's all true. Mandy writes razorsharp, down-to-the bone southern tales about total strangers that you've known your whole life. She knows us better than we know ourselves. This is the good stuff." Mike Henderson, Grammy award winning singer/songwriter, musician, and all around badass.

Mandy Haynes spent hours on barstools and riding in vans listening to outrageous tales from some of the best songwriters and storytellers in Nashville, Tennessee. She traded a stressful life as a pediatric cardiac sonographer for a happy one and now lives in Fernandina Beach, Florida with her three dogs - Moe, Curly, and Pearl - and a turtle named Albert.

She is a contributing writer for Amelia Islander Magazine, Amelia Weddings, Editor in Chief of WELL READ Magazine, and author of two award winning short story collections, Walking the Wrong Way Home, which was a finalist for the Tartt Fiction Award, and Sharp as a Serpent's Tooth Eva and Other Stories. She is also the editor of the anthology, Work in Progress.

Like the characters in some of her stories, she never misses a chance to jump in a creek to catch crawdads, stand up for the underdog, or make someone laugh. Find out more about her at www.mandyhaynes.com