This Is Home, Lisa Duffy
This Is Home, Lisa Duffy
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This Is Home

Author: Lisa Duffy

Narrator: Renata Friedman, Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2019


Synopsis

From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home.

Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the death of her mother, she lives with her father, Bent, in the middle apartment of their triple decker home—Bent’s two sisters, Lucy and Desiree, live on the top floor. A former soldier turned policeman, Bent often works nights, leaving Libby under her aunts’ care. Shuffling back and forth between apartments—and the wildly different natures of her family—has Libby wishing for nothing more than a home of her very own.

Quinn Ellis is at a crossroads. When her husband John, who has served two tours in Iraq, goes missing back at home, suffering from PTSD he refuses to address, Quinn finds herself living in the first-floor apartment of the Winters house. Bent had served as her husband’s former platoon leader, a man John refers to as his brother, and despite Bent’s efforts to make her feel welcome, Quinn has yet to unpack a single box.

For Libby, the new tenant downstairs is an unwelcome guest, another body filling up her already crowded house. But soon enough, an unlikely friendship begins to blossom, when Libby and Quinn stretch and redefine their definition of family and home.

With gorgeous prose and a cast of characters that feel wholly real and lovably flawed, This Is Home is a nuanced and moving novel of finding where we belong.

About Lisa Duffy

Lisa Duffy is the author of The Salt House, named by Real Simple as a Best Book of the Month upon its June release and one of Bustle’s 17 Best Debut Novels by Women in 2017, and This is Home, a favorite book club pick. Lisa received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts. Her writing can be found in numerous publications, including Writer’s Digest. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. My Kind of People is her third novel.


Reviews

People leave people behind everyday. Sometimes they just walk out the door, sometimes they die, sometimes they go off to war and sometimes even when they are with you, they have already abandoned you. The alternating narrators have the latter in common. Sixteen year old Libby’s mother died of cancer......more

4 WARM AND FUZZY STARS! This is Home is about friendship, love, and family. Most importantly, it is about those who are there to pick up the pieces when all else fails--no matter what. Libby is 16 years old and lives with her police officer father, Bent, and their large and lazy dog, Rooster. After h......more

Goodreads review by Susanne

5 Heartfelt Stars. One of My Favorites of 2019! There is this feeling that overcomes you as soon as you open “that book” - that one special book. The ones that are few and far between. It’s like when you strike that match and it lights. A glow, an ember of orange fire takes hold and whoosh: flame.......more

Goodreads review by Debra

If you are in a reading slump, if you want to feel good, if you want to read a book with well-developed characters dealing with real life issues - READ THIS BOOK! I'm not going to say too much about the plot as the book synopsis nails it. What I will say is what worked for me. I was immediately drawn......more


Quotes

"Narrators Renata Friedman and Emily Woo Zeller provide their vocal talents to a new audiobook that explores the boundaries of what home can be. Friedman strikes the perfect balance of frustration and inquisitiveness in her portrayal of Libby Winters--a 16-year-old who has lost her mother to cancer and finds herself moving back and forth between her quirky aunts and her father. Zeller skillfully captures Quinn Ellis, a young wife with twins and a husband with PTSD who seems to have simply disappeared. The voices of Friedman and Zeller are comforting even as the audiobook deals with difficult subjects like PTSD and the loss of a family member to cancer."