In her debut novel, Tracy Manaster approaches many social issues through the intelligent and entertaining story of two young professionals that begin working at a luxury retirement community to deal with their personal struggles. An hour and a half outside Tucson, Arizona, The Commons is a luxury retirement community where no full-time resident under the age of fifty-five is permitted. Young professionals Seth and Alison Collier accept jobs there as a means of dealing (badly) with a recent loss.When a struggling resident, underwater on her mortgage and unable to relocate due to the nation's ongoing housing crisis, is discovered to be raising her grandson in secret, the story--with the help of a well-meaning teenaged beauty blogger and a retiree with reasons of his own to seek the spotlight--goes viral. You Could Be Home By Now explores the fallout for all involved, taking on the themes of grief and memory, aspiration and social class, self-deception, and the drive in all of us to find a place to belong.
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- English
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You Could Be Home By Now
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- The Henry Question
- Benji in Elderland
- An Official Delinquent
- A Kind of Time Travel
- The Angel of The Commons
- Likelier than Barcelona
- The Opposite of Shallow
- Just a Local Girl
- The Principles of Real Estate
- C U Next Tuesday
- People with Notions
- A Family Matter
- No Place in Perfection
- Some List of Strangers
- A Virtuous Start
- An Easier Place to Pretend
- A Simple, Basic Human Rule
- Angels and Orifices
- The Golden Couple
- An Appropriate Place
- A Real Dynamo
- Some Mannerly Instinct
- Robert’s Rules of Order
- Unforgiving Noises
- Primates After All
- A Distant Cloud of Dust
- A Paired-Up Bride and Groom
- A Cheerful Crew of Pair-Bonders
- As Readable as Dick and Jane
- Every Last Out
- The Stance Reserved for Girls
- What the Grownups Do
- The Thaleses of Mildew Street
- Any Future Self-Sorting
- Safe as Houses
- States to the North
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
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