02010cam a2200325 i 4500 1075454342 TxAuBib 20231214120000.0 230606s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023013189 9780063299702 hardcover 0063299704 hardcover (OCoLC)1381313494 TxAuBib rda Christensen, Kate, 1962- Welcome Home, Stranger : a novel / Kate Christensen. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, 2023. 214 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Can you ever truly go home again? An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she’s a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall–until she’s summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother’s death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters—an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister’s best friend–Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is. Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now. 20231214. Women Journalists Fiction. Dysfunctional Families Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Grief Fiction. Divorced Women Fiction.