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When Trying to Return Home | Author Event with Debut Author Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Ivelisse Rodriguez.
Thu, Feb 09
|Crowdcast
A 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.
Time & Location
Feb 09, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Crowdcast
About the Event
About the Book
Profoundly 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
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