The Distance Home

In 1960s rural America two siblings grow up in a place of love and turmoil. Rene is the apple of her father''s eye: an over-achiever, athletic, clever, the best brain in class, and the best dancer in school. Her older brother Leon, doted on by his mother, is shy, a stutterer, but also a brilliant dancer. Rene and Leon share a talent, but it is a gift their father adores in his daughter, and loathes in his son. These two children may be best friends, but life promises to take them down very different paths . . . The Distance Home is the story of two children growing up side by side - the one given opportunities the other just misses - and the fall-out in their adult lives. Funny and tragic, both intimate and universal, Paula Saunders'' debut is about how our parents shape the adults we become. It is a hugely moving story of devotion and neglect, impossible to put down - these are characters you will forever press to your heart.

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The Distance Home is a deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family: its promises and disruptions . . . surrounded by a rich, shimmering, sensuous landscape Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad

Product details

• Authors: Paula Saunders, Saunders Paula
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781509895335
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-9533-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 24 mm
• Series: 182 GRAND; 182 GRAND
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; South Dakota, Sagas, FICTION / Literary, Family & relationships, c 1960 to c 1970, Ballet, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary