Sunday, July 1, 2018

Homecoming



When I was 11 I quit reading children’s literature.  My older sister told me that I would regret it.  However, at 25, I decided to revisit the genre.  It amazes me how imaginative and innocent they are.  Too many adult books just resort to trash to make a buck.  I remember liking Homecoming when I was a kid so I decided to read it again.  My vague memory of this book was all wrong.  I remembered a science fiction book which it definitely is not.  Some children are abandoned by their mother.  It turns out that it’s a complicated situation though.  The oldest Dicey becomes the leader of the family.  A third of the book is just them surviving trying to find food and money.  Then you meet their cousin Eunice and their grandmother.  It’s interesting who ends up taking care of them.  Not everything ends the way you think it well.  I’m going read the sequel Dicey’s Song soon.  

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