{"product_id":"home-bound-vanessa-a-bee-9781662601330","title":"Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This moving book is both an act of defiance -- a way to construct a home outside of borders -- and a timely manifesto on the need for more equitable housing policy in America, weaving her scholarship in economic justice together with her firsthand experience of the many places she's lived. \"Home Bound\" is not just a resonant personal history, but also a thoroughly researched investigation of home.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Rajpreet Heir, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Readers of \u003ci\u003eHome Bound \u003c\/i\u003ewill likely experience that pleasant rush of recognizing something personal in someone else's reality, of answering, yes, home feels like this to me, too.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e--Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Bee's lyrical, emotive prose takes readers through her life with an intimacy that draws and keeps them close. . . . [\u003ci\u003eHome Bound \u003c\/i\u003ewill] appeal to a variety of reader, challenging singular beliefs of what it means to be a daughter, sister, lover, wife, lawyer, and mother.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Library Journal, s\u003c\/i\u003etarred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define \"home\" and \"belonging\" -- from her birth in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to her adoption by her aunt and her aunt's white French husband, to experiencing housing insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the US. After her parents' divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right around the financial crisis and the collapse of the housing market. At twenty, still a practicing evangelical Christian and newly married, Vanessa applied to and was accepted by Harvard Law School, where she was one of the youngest members of her class. There, she forged a new belief system, divorced her husband, left the church, and, inspired by her tumultuous childhood, pursued a career in economic justice upon graduation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVanessa's adoptive, multiracial, multilingual, multinational, and transcontinental upbringing has caused her to grapple for years with foundational questions such as: What is home? Is it the country we're born in, the body we possess, or the name we were given and that identifies us? Is it the house we remember most fondly, the social status assigned to us, or the ideology we forge? What defines us and makes us uniquely who we are? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrganized unconventionally around her own dictionary-style definitions of the word \"home,\" Vanessa tackles these timeless questions thematically and unpacks the many layers that contribute to and condition our understanding of ourselves and of our place in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanessa A. Bee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1662601336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781662601330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Astra House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2022 pg. 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2022 pg. 5","brand":"Vanessa A. Bee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047720579327,"sku":"9781662601330","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_600b3e63-7e9d-45f4-87ad-fc07a195dd95.jpg?v=1684991810","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/home-bound-vanessa-a-bee-9781662601330","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}