No Direction Home: A Novel - Softcover

Silver, Marisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393328740 ISBN 13: 9780393328745

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

"Blindness will be like this." So says ten-year-old Will Burton, trying to reimagine his life in the wake of his father's abrupt disappearance, as his family picks up stakes and moves to California. Another boy, Rogelio Augilar, risks his life to cross the border illegally from Mexico to reach his father, enduring gangs, police roundups, and the pitiless desert. And Marlene McClure, a hard-edged, feisty teenager, leaves her own Midwestern home in search of a father she has imagined but never known. The lives of each of these families converge on a single home in Los Angeles where the very needs and desires that have torn them apart allow them a measure of hope together. Written with heart-stopping grace and a powerful understanding of the needs and desires that define family, "No Direction Home" masterfully evokes how far we will go in the name of a place to call home. Reading group guide included."

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Review:

A considerable feat.

Gripping and at times heartbreaking. . . . Silver, with her attention to everyday detail and her determination to take seriously the myriad individual lives that create California, has crafted a beautiful, honest and poignant novel of this siren state.

A deft juggler of plot lines. . . . [Silver] conjures an aching world of half-truths, physical need and emotional frustration.

Synopsis:

A debut novel by the author of Babe in Paradise finds young Will Burton struggling to make sense of a redefined family after his father's disappearance, young Rogelio Augilar risking his life to illegally cross into Mexico to search for his father, and teenage Marlene McClure leaving her Midwestern home in search of a father she never knew. Reprint

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393328740
• ISBN 13: 9780393328745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304