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04150aim a2200421Ka 4500 001 CD333926AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240103010037 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 230816s2023 nyu s 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0063299739 020 $a 9780063299733 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a FIC045020 $a FIC045000 $a FIC045020 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Christensen, Kate. 245 10 $a Welcome home, stranger $h [electronic resource] : $b A novel. $c Kate Christensen. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b HarperAudio, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (8 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 07:44:55 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Xe Sands. 520 $a " Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask? " —Richard Russo, author of Somebody's Fool "To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen's superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten. A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others."— Ann Packer, author of The Children's Crusade From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home—reluctantly—to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly go home again? An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall–until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters—an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister's best friend–Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is. Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Fiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Literature. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Sands, Xe. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9675980 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7a0f327f-0a07-4d40-844d-35f7d99add31&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/%7B7A0F327F-0A07-4D40-844D-35F7D99ADD31%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/%7B7A0F327F-0A07-4D40-844D-35F7D99ADD31%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/7a0f327f-0a07-4d40-844d-35f7d99add31 $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240103010120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CD333926AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search