04667cam a2200901 4500 468417637 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307958112 0307958116 B0070O5F0E Amazon 57b2310c-8939-4a23-b2a6-77f83d2bb354 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 216112 216112 216112 773436 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Fernando, Roshi. Homesick [Libby]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. family. relationships. Friendship. literary fiction. War. translation. Historical. motherhood. romance. sisters. parenting. culture. Fiction. novels. classic. marriage. love. Coming of age. families. love story. Collection. 20th Century. Short Stories. mystery. Drama. Women's Fiction. Adoption. Modern. magical realism. WWII. Historical Romance. feminism. Family Saga . Chick Lit. Mothers and daughters. literature. fiction books. Literary. realistic fiction. book club books. realistic fiction books. books fiction. coworker gifts for women. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2317kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:In this stunningly assured debut work of fiction, Roshi Fernando weaves together the lives of an extended Sri Lankan family. At Victor and Nandini's home in southeast London, the New Year's Eve celebration is under way. Everyone is gathered around—clinking glasses of arrack and whisky, eating freshly fried poppadoms, listening to baila music—waiting to ring in 1983. Upstairs, The Godfather is playing on repeat for a bedroom filled with teenagers drunk on pilfered wine. And in the middle of it all is sixteen-year-old Preethi, tipsy on youth and friendship and covert cigarettes, desperate to belong. But what does that mean, to belong? As Preethi moves through her life—befriending the local outcast, revealing her brother's deepest secret, struggling with her own unhappiness and through a souring marriage—this desire for acceptance remains the one constant, both for her and for everyone she knows. Homesick moves back and forth in time, between London and Sri Lanka, circling the people in Preethi's world: her brother Rohan; her friends Nil, Clare, Deirdre, and Lolly; her aunty Gertie; and terrible cousin Kumar. Together, they are bound by this shared need to fit in somewhere, this rootless desire for a place to call home. Gorgeously drawn, told with wit and pathos, this poignant narrative blends love with loss, politics with pop culture, tradition with youthful rebellion. Homesick is rich with insight and a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life that introduces us to the work of Roshi Fernando, a remarkable new talent. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/57B/231/0C/Homesick9780307958112.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57B2310C-8939-4A23-B2A6-77F83D2BB354&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/57B/231/0C/Homesick9780307958112.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57B2310C-8939-4A23-B2A6-77F83D2BB354&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/57B/231/0C/Homesick9780307958112.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57B2310C-8939-4A23-B2A6-77F83D2BB354&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)