Speak to Me of Home

From the internationally bestselling author of American Dirt, comes a heartfelt, multigenerational family story which asks: what does it mean to call a place home?''A big swooning romance... delectable'' The Times''A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest''JOHN BOYNE, author of The Heart''s Invisible Furies''Jeanine Cummins has once again proven herself to be a master storyteller'' ''Entrancing... a multigenerational saga of a family fractured by scandal and separated by love'' Washington Post''It was a joy to read'' ''I loved this book... a big, sweeping story of family and identity, and what it means to belong'' EDEL COFFEY, author of Breaking Point and In Her Place______''Why hadn''t she said to her daughter I love you beyond reason and none of this matters at all and every day that you breathe is a gift?''Rafaela remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth and Benny, to the American Midwest, and losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip.Her daughter, in New York with a family of her own, wishes she could forget her muddy feelings about where she comes from - the same feelings which motivated her 22-year-old daughter Daisy to reconnect with their past.Daisy, who has momentarily forgotten everything, hears the word critical in a hospital room in San Juan and remembers, all at once, the car that hurtled towards her, the terrible storm, and something else. What was it?Now Ruth and Rafaela must return to the city where it all began, to gather by Daisy''s bedside and confront the twists of fate that have caused a growing rift in their family and led them to this moment.

From the author of the runaway international bestseller AMERICAN DIRT comes the story of a Puerto Rican-American family fractured along lines of identity and belonging. Will they weather the storm? What do you think of when you think of home?For Ruth, it\'s the house she has lovingly rebuilt around her family, a place of taste and refinement, now the focus of a flourishing online career. It\'s a shame her children don\'t always appreciate her work as much as her newfound followers, but there\'s always a new renovation to lose herself in. For Ruth\'s daughter Daisy, the answer\'s not so simple. For while Puerto Rico\'s San Juan - scene of endless teenage summers, and now the inspiration for her vintage clothing start-up - has her heart, her refusal to return to the mainland and embark on a future is driving a wedge between herself and her mother. Rafaela understands her granddaughter Daisy\'s attachment to the island, and wants to support her. But as each passing day brings her own youthful memories more vividly to the surface, she realises she too has choices to make. How can she explain all this to Ruth? When Ruth receives the phone call all parents dread, during a tropical storm on the island the family must come to terms with how far they have drifted apart. Can they find their way back to one another?