"Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?"-Richard Russo, author of Somebody's Fool"To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen's superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten.
A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others."-Ann Packer, author of The Children's Crusade"A deeply endearing story about confronting one's past and constructing a new future-under extreme duress.
"Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?"-Richard Russo, author of Somebody's Fool"To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen's superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten.
A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others."-Ann Packer, author of The Children's Crusade"A deeply endearing story about confronting one's past and constructing a new future-under extreme duress.
