January 2026 Book, Home
Talk About Books meets the third Wednesday of the month at the Guilford Free Library. Winter meeting time is at 5:30. Home tells the story of Frank Money, an African-American veteran traumatized by his experiences in the Korean war. He has been back in America for a year, but feels too violent and dislocated to go home to Georgia, where his younger sister still lives. As the novel opens, Frank finds himself restrained in a hospital, but can't remember exactly why he's there. He has received a mysterious letter from a woman named Sarah, telling him that he must hurry home and rescue his younger sister from some unnamed danger: "Come fast. She be dead if you tarry." So Frank breaks out of the hospital, shoeless in the dead of the winter, and begins to make his way cross-country to Georgia, relying on the kindness of strangers and trying to suppress his traumatic memories of the war as he goes. Morrison cross-cuts Frank's story with that of his sist...