"Homecoming" is the story of Caitlin Pearson, a college freshman on her first visit home who discovers, to her dismay, that "out of sight did not necessarily guarantee out of mind." Over the course of her visit, Caitlin endures an overly-controlling mother and her latest redecorating project - Caitlin's oversexed younger cousin, a humiliating stint as her former high school's returning Homecoming Queen, and an old-fashioned booze-and-jealousy spiked family Thanksgiving. These adventures force Caitlin to confront old wounds and new fears, as well as a future filled with uncertainty, promise,...

Plump, unattractive, and underachieving, Sharon Mathers isn't the kind of girl usually found in glossy women's magazines. She is the kind of girl found reading them, usually while drinking beer in the backroom of her friend's double-wide trailer/beauty parlor. Born to a single mother in a small town where family ties run "deep enough to be genetically suspect," Sharon grew up on the social fringe. Unfortunately, marrying a hometown boy and "by extension, almost half of the town," didn't help. Sharon's longing for deep and authentic ties of kinship takes her farther and farther from her...

Daisy McLean, a young librarian at a branch library in Oklahoma, unexpectedly learns that a world-famous novelist might have been her birth father. Her adoptive parents expose a long-held family secret that upends Daisy's comfortable world. She sets off to meet her estranged father using her mother's hand-written diary and her father's latest novel as guides. Homeless is the story of Daisy's journey through the history, literature, and geography of The South on her search to find a family she never knew she'd lost."