{"product_id":"when-trying-to-return-home-stories-pre-order-2-7","title":"When Trying to Return Home: Stories","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond--and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProfoundly moving and powerful, the stories in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Trying to Return Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care. A man, his wife, and his mistress each confront the borders separating love and hate, obligation and longing, on the eve of a flight to San Juan. A college student grapples with the space between chivalry and machismo in a tense encounter involving a nun. And in 1930s Louisiana, a woman attempting to find a place to call her own chances upon an old friend at a bar and must reckon with her troubled past.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForming a web of desires and consequences that span generations, McCauley's Black American and Afro-Puerto Rican characters remind us that these voices have always been here, occupying the very center of American life--even if we haven't always been willing to listen.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Asè Book Boutique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42023775011012,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/7834\/7972\/products\/Screenshot_20230109_114754_Chrome.jpg?v=1673288702","url":"https:\/\/www.thehomeplaceinstitute.com\/products\/when-trying-to-return-home-stories-pre-order-2-7","provider":"Asè Book Boutique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}