Speak To Me Of Home: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins Middle School Kinnick heads off on a

Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind

which won’t allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days—nor return to a place where she’s already been

and even love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals

who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English Dictionaries

Carmel turns inward

Speak To Me Of Home: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins Middle School Kinnick heads off on aOn her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acua y Daubn has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mothers isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaelas daughter, Ruth,