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Atria Books
June 2019
On Sale: June 11, 2019
304 pages
ISBN: 1501189255
EAN: 9781501189258
Kindle: B07MKDL4YS
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
From the author of book club favorite The Salt
House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage
girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in
downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of
home.
Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in
Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives
up to its name. After the death of her mother, she lives
with her father, Bent, in the middle apartment of their
triple decker home—Bent's two sisters, Lucy and Desiree,
live on the top floor. A former soldier turned policeman,
Bent often works nights, leaving Libby under her aunts'
care. Shuffling back and forth between apartments—and the
wildly different natures of her family—has Libby wishing for
nothing more than a home of her very own.
Quinn Ellis
is at a crossroads. When her husband John, who has served
two tours in Iraq, goes missing back at home, suffering from
PTSD he refuses to address, Quinn finds herself living in
the first-floor apartment of the Winters house. Bent had
served as her husband's former platoon leader, a man John
refers to as his brother, and despite Bent's efforts to
make her feel welcome, Quinn has yet to unpack a single
box.
For Libby, the new tenant downstairs is an
unwelcome guest, another body filling up her already crowded
house. But soon enough, an unlikely friendship begins to
blossom, when Libby and Quinn stretch and redefine their
definition of family and home.
With gorgeous prose
and a cast of characters that feel wholly real and lovably
flawed, This Is Home is a nuanced and moving novel of
finding where we belong.
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