Homecoming - Softcover

?A streetwise, subversive novel? Patricia Duncker ?Evokes the no-rules love between a junkie and her sister, a suffocating closeness of needles and nods. Gussoff has a good eye? Pagan Kennedy ?Gussoff has a good eye for detail... A tautly written, haunting tale of loneliness, alienation, and lost hopes and dreams? Kirkus Reviews ?Beautifully written, but powers on anguish to a disturbing extent? Time Out ?Deals insightfully and unsentimentally with the issues the Jerry Springer show frequently airs, showing how seemingly normal families nourish the impulse for self-destruction? Scotland on Sunday ?A debut of rare talent, w ith this novel standing as a daring counter-cultural shot in the arm against the impending era of George Dubya?s moral majority? Big Issue in the North ?Caren Gussoff has written a novel as bruising and as bleak as anything by Denis Johnson. Homecoming is that good? The Crack ?A difficult and unsettling vision of love and life among the disaffected? Flux

When Katey Bruscke learns that her older sister Reese has been murdered, she goes back ?home? to confront her past and break the news to her family, and friends. First thing off the bus she?s mugged at gunpoint by a guy who turns out to be someone she went to high school with. She sleeps with her younger sister?s boyfriend then, finally, identifies her sister?s bullet-ridden body in the morgue. Slowly Katey prepares to confront her parents with the news of Reese?s murder. Caren Gussoff offers a disturbing glimpse of the other side of the American Dream and a brilliant portrayal of the pain at the heart of family life.