The Long Journey Home is loosely based on the author's own experiences growing up inNorth Dakota during the Great Depression. Dolores Durando, born in 1921, is the author of five novels, AndYesterday is Gone, Beyond the Bougainvillea, Out of the Darkness, Always in the Ribbons, and this, her latest novel, The Long Journey Home. Dolores gained deep intuition for the diversity of humannature as a licensed psychiatric technician for more thanforty years in various mental hospitals. She served on mentalhealth advisory boards, both in California and Oregon, withfourteen years as a board member of ASSET, a nationallypublished magazine, for which she wrote short stories. Sheretired at seventy and moved to Oregon, where she has beenwriting, painting watercolors, and sculpting. She lives withher son and daughter-in-law in southern Oregon's stunningApplegate Valley.
