
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
You Could Be Home By Now
About this book
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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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