When Trying to Return Home: Stories Friendship suspense and lots of charm

suspense and lots of charm

But on the eve of his wedding

and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as Walela navigates rocky personal relationships and shares their story online

arrest and the threat of imprisonment

rainbow-cake-eating celebration of queerness on her own terms

When Trying to Return Home: Stories Friendship suspense and lots of charmA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 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 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