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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Call Me Home

Call Me Home

Kruse, Megan
Gilbert, Elizabeth

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General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0990437000
ISBN13: 9780990437000
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: Mar 3 2015
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
Winner of the 2016 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

Megan Kruse's first novel startles in its capacity for complexity . . . a blistering story of lightness and darkness, the power of family and the capacity we have to hurt those closest to us. --Rachel Hurn, San Francisco Chronicle

Call Me Home has an epic scope in the tradition of Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves or Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and braids the stories of a family in three distinct voices: Amy, who leaves her Texas home at 19 to start a new life with a man she barely knows, and her two children, Jackson and Lydia, who are rocked by their parents' abusive relationship. When Amy is forced to bargain for the safety of one child over the other, she must retrace the steps in the life she has chosen. Jackson, 18 and made visible by his sexuality, leaves home and eventually finds work on a construction crew in the Idaho mountains, where he begins a potentially ruinous affair with Don, the married foreman of his crew. Lydia, his 12-year-old sister, returns with her mother to Texas, struggling to understand what she perceives to be her mother's selfishness. At its heart, this is a novel about family, our choices and how we come to live with them, what it means to be queer in the rural West, and the changing idea of home.

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