California Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520213425)

Spanning the 100-day Persian Gulf War and a small California town's girls' basketball season, Home and Away is the story of Hedy Gallagher Castle, a woman who has reached a crossroads in her life. A straddler by nature, Hedy finds herself doing a balancing act on all fronts as her daughter approaches womanhood, her father enters a no-man's-land of bewilderment after a stroke, and her husband departs in search of the lost athletic glory of his youth. At the same time, the divisive political issues of the greater world-the Gulf War, abortion, gay rights, and fundamentalism-encroach on Hedy's increasingly fragile private one. As the tensions mount, Hedy learns to take a side-her own side-for the first time in her life, reawakening to a sense of love and loss.

Author: Joanne Meschery
ISBN-10: 0520213424
ISBN-13: 9780520213425
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1998
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.06h x 7.35w x 2.57d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/24/1999 pg. 28