The Longest Road

To Hell and Back Again from Addiction to Advocacy

Joe Calendino, Gary Little

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Page Two Books, Inc.
26 November 2024

Memoirs; Addiction & therapy; Coping with illness

Recovery is the longest road toward a better future.

""When you are that far into addiction, one of the things you are ruled by, you live for, is the drug. It becomes your mother, your father, your sister, your brother, your lover.""

In The Longest Road, Joe Calendino relives his harrowing journey from full-patch Hells Angel to rock bottom. Consumed by drugs and alcohol, he spiralled out of control and ended up strung out, desperate and destitute. Now it's his mission to protect at-risk youth from that same fate.

Written with his trusted confidant and former high school counsellor, Gary Little, this gripping memoir shares more than Calendino's story of relapse and redemption. It also tells the stories of the hidden angels who helped save his life, and the lives of the young people he now strives to help in his role as executive director of Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative. There are families who have lost loved ones to overdose, friends whose habits have landed them in gangs or in jail, and the call to action of a community that needs help, healing and hope-now more than ever.

Building on his first page-turning memoir, To Hell and Back, Calendino again shows he is living proof that sometimes all it takes is someone believing in you to completely change your life.

By: Joe Calendino, Gary Little
Imprint: Page Two Books, Inc.
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781774583340
ISBN 10: 1774583348
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 26 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Joe Calendino is a former Hells Angel Nomad and the co-founder and Executive Director of Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative. A recovering addict, he has made it his life's mission to support at-risk youth through programs designed to prevent them from following a path of gangs, drugs, and violence. In 2014, Calendino was honoured for his work with the Courage to Come Back Award from Coast Mental Health. Gary Little is a writer and life-long educator who has served as a teacher, counsellor, principal, Associate Superintendent of Schools, Vancouver School Board, and Director of International Baccalaureate Educator Programs at the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia.