Dimensions
135 x 203 x 19mm
32-year-old David Giffels can't get the Replacements' song out his head ("...Look me in the eye' then tell me that I'm satisfied") and it is affecting his house hunting. The young journalist' with his pregnant wife and their 18-month-old son' has been combing the suburbs for just the right house' but nothing seems right...until he sees a Guilded Era mansion previously owned by an Akron rubber baron. It has six fireplaces' servants' quarters' a billiards room' stained glass windows' and a pond with waterfalls-and it's a complete wreck.
There are huge holes in the ceiling' a small colony of wild animals that has taken up residence in parts of the house' and what seems like miles of corroded-even dangerous-piping. It's a dump...and it's perfect.
ALL THE WAY HOME follows the funny and sometimes frustrating journey of Giffels and his family as they put the old house back together. Their many adventures include nudging the elderly Mrs. Kratz' who has been hiding in the house with her cats for decades' to leave; battling the wisteria vines-to say nothing of the raccoons' squirrels' and mice-that have overtaken the attic; and even finding $14'000 in Depression-era cash hidden in a bathroom wall. It's also the story of a young man on the brink of adulthood' someone happy but still a bit mystified by his new roles as a husband and a father' a man who's trying to find himself without losing himself.
