The Roads We Travel is a memoir told in the style of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, Stephen King's On Writing, and Ellen Gilchrist's The Writing Life. Instead of approaching the pedagogy of creative writing in the traditional academic, prescriptive manner, Armand uses his own life's journey to becoming a successful writer and teacher as a way to pass on what he's learned over the years about what makes good writing work (as well as what makes some writing unsuccessful).

Yet, the text is not prescriptive in nature; rather, it seeks to teach by inspiring readers, even those who are not writers themselves, but who simply want to read a story of perseverance, hope, and determination.

In the 1980s, twelve-year-old Matthew Cooper is experiencing some strange and terrifying events at an old rental house where he and his family have recently moved. TVs and radios click on and off in the middle of the night. Odd shapes are drawn in the foggy glass of a bathroom mirror. No one can explain these things, and as their encounters become more bizarre and intense, Matthew’s family slowly descends into darkness and paranoia, the psychological horror becoming more of a threat than what might be lurking behind their walls.