The three characters come together when Leah’s family provides assistance to Colin and Rabia, but the introduction of the latter two plot lines results in an episodic feel. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Wendy at Taking the Long Way Home Octoat 7:15 AM. Further complicating matters, after the plane lands, the narrative focus turns to Colin, a 12-year-old boy travelling from New York City to London, and to Leah, a local teen grieving her father’s death. The problem with Walsh’s approach is that she raises questions about how Rabia is going to get there, but undermines the story’s intensity by relaying these details as backstory after Rabia’s arrival in Newfoundland, rather than making them part of her journey. With her youngest brother in shock over the death of their older brother, her father taken by the Taliban, and her mother too depressed and ill to do much of anything, it falls to Rabia to negotiate their passage to the U.S. The first half of the novel follows 13-year-old Rabia as her family flees Afghanistan. Through these characters, the reader is given multiple perspectives on how events unfolded during the days following the terrorist attack, and the origins of the political and social questions we continue to ask ourselves more than a decade later. is unexpectedly diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, and the community comes together to help the stranded passengers. Rabia, Colin, and Leah’s lives become linked when a plane on its way to the U.S. Stranded there with a new baby, the pretty widow tries to make the best of it. Newfoundland-born author Alice Walsh’s A Long Way from Home focuses on how three children are affected by 9/11. Libby Summerfield can’t wait to get out of Deadman’s Gulcha lawless mining town filled with gunfights, brawls, and uncivilized mountain menmen like Logan St.
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