Speak to Me of Home

'A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest' JOHN BOYNE

'Utterly absorbing, a big, sweeping story of family and identity' EDEL COFFEY

'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.

Speak to Me of Home explores the compassion, frustration, and determination of emigrants from Puerto Rico to America. Cummins' characters leap off the page, many suffering homesickness, some hiding secrets, but all filled with love. A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest -- John Boyne, author of THE HEART'S INVISIBLE FURIES

I loved this book. Utterly absorbing, a big, sweeping story of family and identity, and what it means to belong. I fell in love with these characters and did not want this book to end. As emotional as it is insightful on the subject of home. A total tour de force, Jeanine Cummins is a master storyteller.

-- Edel Coffey, author of BREAKING POINT and IN HER PLACE
A fine novel. . . . Daisy's sections are the heart of the novel, dipping into magical realism as her spirit navigates the border between life and death and brings the family to her bedside with triumphant and transcendent love. This commendable return for Cummins comes with a surprise cherry-on-top twist Booklist
Engrossing. . . . Cummins succeeds at breathing life into her large cast of characters and excels at depicting the nuances of a mother-daughter relationship Publishers Weekly

Jeanine Cummins is the author of AMERICAN DIRT, which has sold over 3.5 million copies globally, and has been translated into 37 languages, the novels THE OUTSIDE BOY, THE CROOKED BRANCH and the true crime work A RIP IN HEAVEN, all of which are published by Tinder Press. AMERICAN DIRT was selected for Oprah's Book Club and the Richard and Judy Book Club and was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller, and reached no. 2 in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

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