Road to the Sun

What was it like to take part in that fantastic mushrooming which became Miami? What drove that mass of humanity to change a small tropical frontier town into one of the most colorful boom towns in our contemporary history? Jason Horne knew. He had come to the vast watery expanse of the Everglades just before World War I with a dream to make a life as a rice farmer. But one violent event destroyed that dream and sent him headlong into an agony from which he alone could save himself. Ellen Horne, his wife, also knew. That same single crashing event thrust her into a madness that was also the madness of her time and place. Here is a striking novel about Florida by a woman who is known to thousands for her writings about this land and its vivid people. The growth of Miami is a rich, colorful, dramatic episode in our history. It was America booming, brawling, loving, and working to get somewhere. But sometimes it left its people behind. It left Jason and Ellen..........In telling this dual drama of Jason and Ellen and the city they helped build and almost destroy, Marjory Stoneman Douglas has told more than a story of a region. It is America as she has described.