{"id":64208,"date":"2023-03-13T03:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64208"},"modified":"2023-03-13T03:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:57:05","slug":"when-trying-to-return-home-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64208","title":{"rendered":"When Trying to Return Home: Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Trying to Return Home: Stories<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Counterpoint Press<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Random House<\/a>)
\n2023-02-07
\n272 pages
\n5-1\/2 x 8-1\/4
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781640095687<\/p>\n

Jennifer Maritza McCauley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico<\/a>, Pittsburgh<\/a>, Louisiana<\/a>, Miami<\/a>, and beyond\u2014and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms<\/strong><\/p>\n

Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home<\/em> dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care. A man, his wife, and his mistress each confront the borders separating love and hate, obligation and longing, on the eve of a flight to San Juan<\/a>. A college student grapples with the space between chivalry and machismo in a tense encounter involving a nun. And in 1930s Louisiana, a woman attempting to find a place to call her own chances upon an old friend at a bar and must reckon with her troubled past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond\u2014and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,14646,369,8,15,20],"tags":[22713,3707,33780,20754,6321,25857,4889,24133,2654],"class_list":["post-64208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-latino","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-counterpoint-press","tag-florida","tag-jennifer-maritza-mccauley","tag-louisiana","tag-miami","tag-penguin-random-house","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64210,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64208\/revisions\/64210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}