where he lived until he was six years old
where nothing looks quite the same as it did at her old house
" These are questions this mysterious creature has been asked all her life—and she has no idea how to answer
from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own
they have to deal with their dysfunctional family relationships
When Trying to Return Home Format:Hardcover where he lived until heA dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyondand an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own termsProfoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free