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30 Minutes to London began with a voice-a conductor's announcement Dr. Alecia R. Jones heard one ordinary July morning in her apartment, six years after she'd actually ridden the Chunnel into London with her mother asleep in the seat beside her. What she'd planned as a solo memoir became an invitation instead.
Structured as a single journey-Departure, Layovers and Delays, Transfers, Arrival-this collection of true stories, poems, and original illustrations moves through faith, grief, identity, and the long work of becoming who you already were. A retired English teacher who still won't call herself a writer. A poet and nurse who has spent years sitting with other people's pain. A counselor-in-training who believes stories are how we heal. An artist and craniotomy survivor who illustrated the book she also wrote for. A man from Komenda, Ghana, who crossed an ocean and built a life for his children.
Some of these stories are funny. Some took decades to say out loud. All of them are true.
Whether you're still waiting at your gate or you've already landed somewhere you never planned to be, this collection meets you where you are.
Get on wherever you want. Your ticket is good.
Structured as a single journey-Departure, Layovers and Delays, Transfers, Arrival-this collection of true stories, poems, and original illustrations moves through faith, grief, identity, and the long work of becoming who you already were. A retired English teacher who still won't call herself a writer. A poet and nurse who has spent years sitting with other people's pain. A counselor-in-training who believes stories are how we heal. An artist and craniotomy survivor who illustrated the book she also wrote for. A man from Komenda, Ghana, who crossed an ocean and built a life for his children.
Some of these stories are funny. Some took decades to say out loud. All of them are true.
Whether you're still waiting at your gate or you've already landed somewhere you never planned to be, this collection meets you where you are.
Get on wherever you want. Your ticket is good.