Road Trip with the Folks
by John F. Baker -- Publishers Weekly, 9/13/2004
That's what senior NBC correspondent Mike Leonard took last February with his elderly Irish immigrant parents, ever-optimistic Jack and ace doomsayer Marge, and the results made for a hilarious and touching four-part series on The Today Show as Leonard and his folks traversed the country together in an RV. Now he has turned the experience, alternately touching and funny, into a book, and Ballantine editorial director Linda Marrow promptly bought world rights to it. It's called Last Lap, and in it, Leonard tells about his parents' reminiscences, quarrels, abundant humor and often offbeat encounters with folk along the way. The agent making the sale was Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.
