You Could Be Home By Now
eBook - ePub

You Could Be Home By Now

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. The Henry Question
  4. Benji in Elderland
  5. An Official Delinquent
  6. A Kind of Time Travel
  7. The Angel of The Commons
  8. Likelier than Barcelona
  9. The Opposite of Shallow
  10. Just a Local Girl
  11. The Principles of Real Estate
  12. C U Next Tuesday
  13. People with Notions
  14. A Family Matter
  15. No Place in Perfection
  16. Some List of Strangers
  17. A Virtuous Start
  18. An Easier Place to Pretend
  19. A Simple, Basic Human Rule
  20. Angels and Orifices
  21. The Golden Couple
  22. An Appropriate Place
  23. A Real Dynamo
  24. Some Mannerly Instinct
  25. Robert’s Rules of Order
  26. Unforgiving Noises
  27. Primates After All
  28. A Distant Cloud of Dust
  29. A Paired-Up Bride and Groom
  30. A Cheerful Crew of Pair-Bonders
  31. As Readable as Dick and Jane
  32. Every Last Out
  33. The Stance Reserved for Girls
  34. What the Grownups Do
  35. The Thaleses of Mildew Street
  36. Any Future Self-Sorting
  37. Safe as Houses
  38. States to the North
  39. Acknowledgments
  40. Copyright