The Long Way Home

Maria Andreadis is twenty-two and certain of everything - sharp, brilliant, quick to cross-examine the whole world, and slower to forgive it. Then one rainy April night in Athens ends with a locked door, and the life she was going to have is quietly taken from her. What follows is a reckoning she never chose and cannot steer: a cell that smells of bleach, a mother who keeps showing up, an unexpected love found in the last place she thought to look, and the slow, stubborn work of becoming herself again when everyone official has already decided who she is.
Set against a luminous, unsentimental Athens, The Long Way Home is a novel about guilt and endurance, the stories we tell to survive ourselves, and the hidden harmony that holds a life together when everything obvious has fallen away.