Book Release on the (Primitive) Way of St James by Louisiana Author

Baton Rouge, LA, December 17, 2015 (Newswire.com) - ​​When the author proposed to his younger brother Cory that they walk the Way of St. James, the circumstances couldn’t have been more inopportune. Landon was in his last year of medical school, preparing for a cross-country move from Texas to Massachusetts for residency with a newborn child at home. Cory, recently released from federal prison, was jobless and penniless.

In spite of these outward circumstances, this was right time for them to make this pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. These two brothers had scarcely communicated with each other for more than a decade. Cory’s addiction to drugs and alcohol and eventual imprisonment had driven a rift between the two brothers who were as children inseparable.

"On the Primitive Way is the first Camino memoir to chronicle not only the Way of Saint James but also the way of two brothers: their separation, reuniting and healing on their pilgrimage."

Martin Sheen, award-winning actor starring in The Way (2010)

In their grueling trek through blizzard and torrential rains with threadbare accommodations in the mountains of Asturias and Galicia, the author finds that the struggle to get to Santiago de Compostela is more than just a battle to survive the elements. It is an opportunity to find healing of a tumultuous past with his brother.

“On the Primitive Way is the first Camino memoir to chronicle not only the Way of Saint James but also the way of two brothers: their separation, reuniting and healing on their pilgrimage.”

--Martin Sheen, award-winning actor starring in The Way (2010)

 

If you’ve walked El Camino from Saint Jean, On the Primitive Way will make you want to walk it from Oviedo.

--Kurt Koontz, author of A Million Steps

 

“On the Primitive Way is more than another Camino memoir, it is a story of two brothers, estranged by addiction and reconciled on the Way. Anyone who has had a family member or loved on suffering from addiction will relate to Landon’s description of his struggle to love his brother even when he continues to fall deeper into substance abuse.”

--Beatriz Gonzales-Stephan, Lee Hage Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, Rice University

 

“After eleven centuries of history, the pilgrimage still has the ability to work "miracles." This is what Cory and Landon experienced as pilgrims in On the Primitive Way. Passing the seven mountain passes that occur between Oviedo and Santiago, a metaphor for the difficulties in life they had to overcome, they were able to find at end peace, true brotherhood and harmony with nature.”

--Anton Pombo Rodriguez, best-selling author of Camino guidebooks