Welcome Home, Stranger: A Novel

Kate Christensens novel Welcome Home, Stranger is a revelation, offering characters as real as family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama, and fierce authorial intelligence. Richard Russo and Ann Packer praise it as a triumph of intelligence and wit, and a spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others. Rachel, a fifty-something woman, returns to Maine after her mother's death to confront her past, sorrow, and the ghost of her mother. The novel is lively, witty, and painfully familiar, holding a mirror up to modern life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 18 January 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Welcome Home, Stranger .

A deeply endearing story about confronting ones past and constructing a new future—under extreme duress.... Welcome Home, Stranger .

An environmental journalist in Washington,DC,Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age,shes 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.

Rachel is 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 shes summoned home to d.

Maine,where she grew up.
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 d. Maine, where she grew up. Rachel is 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 d. Maine, where she grew up. Rachel is a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. 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Weight: 374g
Dimension: 160 x 238 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063299702