Dreaming Home by Lucian Childs Paperback

Winner of the 2024 Fred Kerner Book Award ampamp8226ampamp160Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize ampamp8226 A Globe and Mail Best Spring Book ampamp8226 One of Lambda Literary Reviews Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of June 2023ampamp160ampamp8226 A Southern Review Book to Celebrate in June 2023ampamp160ampamp8226 Aampamp16049th Shelf Best Book of 2023A queer comingofageand comingtotermsampamp8212follows the aftereffects of betrayal and poignantly explores the ways we search for home.When a sisters casual act of betrayal awakens their fatherampamp8217s demonsampamp8212ones spawned by his time in Vietnamese POW campsampamp8212the effects of the ensuing violence against her brother ripple out over the course of forty years from Lubbock to San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale. Swept up in this arc the members of this family and their loved ones tell their tales. A queer comingofage and comingtoterms and a poignant exploration of all the ways we search for home Dreaming Home is the unforgettable story of the fragmenting of an American family.