"Ryan Hyde's latest offering is true to her style — honest, insightful, and

shared from a place that is earthy and sometimes gritty, but quite

beautiful in its simplicity and scope." –Blogcritics Books

By the bestselling author of DON'T LET ME GO and PAY IT FORWARD, this

entertaining and life-affirming collection of autobiographical stories

explores the rewards and challenges of building a happy life of

self-knowledge and creative inspiration, from a writer who has been through

it all.

"What inspired you to write the novel Pay It Forward?"

Years after the publication of Pay It Forward, this is still the most

common question asked of Catherine Ryan Hyde, bestselling and critically

acclaimed author of 20 published and forthcoming books, including Don't Let

Me Go, When You Were Older, and Pay It Forward, the incredible bestselling

novel that led to a movie, a foundation, and an entire social movement.

Everything Pay It Forward became is rooted in a small, but extraordinary

act of kindness, which Catherine received as a young adult. It was one

moment that caused her to look at life in a different way. It was a moment

of pure, human inspiration.

In THE LONG STEEP PATH: EVERYDAY INSPIRATION FROM THE AUTHOR OF PAY IT

FORWARD, Catherine shares her story, as well as what inspires her, in a

series of funny and totally engaging autobiographical stories that are at

once personal and universal.