Women's Fiction: NO PLACE LIKE HOME

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

by Barbara Samuel

Trade paperback, 298 pp
ISBN: 0345460375

RITA WINNING NOVEL

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From the Publisher

Sometimes a wrong turn is the only way home. . . .

No Place Like Home tells the unforgettable story of a family bound together by tradition–and the emotional journey of an estranged daughter risking everything for a second chance at life and love.

Twenty-one years ago Jewel Sabatino left her childhood behind and never looked back. After a magical taste of fame, she found herself alone with a son to raise and not much else. She survived with the help of Michael, her one true friend. But now Michael is too sick to care for

himself, and Jewel has run out of options. She leaves New York for the hills of Colorado, unsure if the family she ran from will welcome her back.

For Jewel, coming home is falling back into a world that smells of Italian restaurants and home-baked pies. It is the laughter of sisters preparing for a summer wedding, and the peaceful haven for a treasured soul

mate’s last days. It also means facing the unforgiving eyes of a father betrayed by his favorite child–and letting go of a son who is ready to become a man. But most of all, it is the love she discovers in her own wary heart when Michael’s brother Malachi unexpectedly arrives on her doorstep.

Told with breathtaking insight and deep emotion, No Place Like Home is a joyful feast for all the sen

ses, a vibrant bounty of love, and a tender life lesson to be savored long after the last page is turned.

REVIEWS

"The sense of place is vivid, the secondary characters charming and many of Jewel's thoughts about her various and often conflicting roles and loyalties are all too recognizable and full of self-deprecating humor." --Publisher's Weekly

Jewel ran away with a bad boy musician on a motorcycle when she was 17, breaking her daddy's heart. Twenty-three years later, down on her luck, she's back, with her teenage son Shane and her AIDS-stricken best buddy Michael, the deed to Great Aunt Sylvia's house in her pocket. Her big Sicilian-American Colorado clan embraces her, except for daddy, who's still nursing his great hurt. It's an eventful summer; there's a marriage; a funeral; a sweet, unexpected love affair; a tough letting-go; and redemption and reconciliation. This hardcover debut by RITA Award-winning Samuel is a tearjerker but never a downer. Combining the best of romance, women's, and mainstream fiction, this transcends boundaries. It's a triumph. Samuel lives in Pueblo, CO. Jo Manning, Barry Univ. Lib.,   --Library Journal

TIDBITS

This book won the first RITA for women's fiction.  LADY LUCK'S MAP OF VEGAS also won that RITA.