Speak to Me of Home

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story that asks: What does it mean to call a place home? On her wedding day in San Juan,Puerto Rico in 1968Rafaela Acu├▒a y Daub├│n has mild misgivingsbut she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anywayin a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwestunleashing a fleet of disappointments. Against the backdrop of her motherΓÇÖs isolation in St. LouisMissouri in the 1980sRafaelaΓÇÖs daughterRuth Brennanlongs only to belong. Eager to fit inRuth lets go of her languagehabitsand childhood memories of Puerto Rico. It’s not until decades laterwhen RuthΓÇÖs own daughterDaisyreturns to Puerto Rico that her mother and grandmother begin to truly reflect on the choices that have come to define their lives. When a hurricane ravages the islandleaving Daisy critically injuredRafaela and Ruth return to the city where it all began. As they gather at DaisyΓÇÖs bedsidetheyΓÇÖre confronted by the pasts that brought them to this point. We follow them as they come of agefall in lovetake risksand contend with all the heartbreakstriumphsand reversals of fortune ΓÇö both good and bad ΓÇö that make up a meaningful life. As old memories come to lightso do buried secretsleaving everyone in the family wondering exactly where it is that they belong. A strikingresonant examination of marriagefamilyand identitySpeak to Me of Home is ultimately a story of mothers and daughters that asks: how can three women who share geography and genetics have such wildly different ideas of where it is they come from? And more importantlycan they discover the common language to find their way home?