Welcome Home, Stranger
Kate ChristensenCan you ever truly go home again?
An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced & childless in her middle age, she’s a true independent spirit with the pain & experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large & 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, & the ghost of the mother who, for better & worse, made her the woman she is.
Lively, witty, & painfully familiar, this sophisticated & 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.
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“Kate Christensen’s new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family & friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama & always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?”— Richard Russo, author of Somebody’s Fool
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KATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of seven novels, most recently The Last Cruise. Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has also published two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir.