A collection of 12 stories, with settings ranging from northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia, that explore the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone.
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'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.'
When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee who'd resisted capture long ago.
Decades later, her family takes Great Mam on a road trip home. But the place that holds the scattered bones of her ancestors is no longer the land she remembers.
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Homeland features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Shorter Reads, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Fiction: special features, Recommendations
Homeland is available in Paperback, Ebook
Homeland was written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Faber & Faber
Homeland has 40 pages
Yes it is part of Faber Stories series
£6.29