finished the book in one seating right after loaning it from the library. Morrison is a very visual kind of writer; the imageries that she created with her writing are sometimes shocking and vivid. I quite enjoyed her style. The novel Home is a relatively short one which revolved around the lives of a frank Money and his sister Cee. Frank and Cee came from an impoverished family in a rural town, Lotus, and grew up under the care of their evil step-grandma, Lenore and bummish grandfather Salem. Cee was despised by Lenore as she was borne on the streets and was regarded as a jinx but Cee was loved and protected by Frank. However when frank left to enlist in the army, Cee was left to her own devices and made the mistake of marrying Prince whom dumped her after leaving with Lenore's car to the city.
On another side of the world, frank suffered from PTSD after the war and took to drinking. Apart from Losing his two best friends from home, frank had a dark secret which he eventually revealed near the end of the book. Frank was on the way to self-destruction until he received a letter saying that his sister was dying and needed his rescue.
Cee had been working as a nurse for a nice doctor who eventually turned out to be Frankenstein of sort, drugging her and conducting experiments on her. Cee was on the brink of death until Frank appeared and both of them returned to the home they had abhorred in their youth. In lotus, the community spirit and love nursed Cee back to life. The ending was beautiful... the sense of losing something, finding it, and that peace of returning home.
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