Carrying Albert Home: A Novel

Carrying Albert Home is a novel by Homer Hickam, the West Virginia author best known for his bestselling memoir Rocket Boys, later adapted into the film October Sky. Inspired by his own family history, it follows his parents, Elsie and Homer, on an unlikely, thousand-mile road trip across Depression-era America, alligator in tow, after a detour through Elsie's brief brush with old Hollywood.

Told with the same warmth and down-home humor that made Rocket Boys a favorite, it's a story about love, second chances, and one very memorable pet.

• Author: Homer Hickam
• Paperback, 432 pages
• Publication date: July 5, 2016
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks