A work of joyous and serious invention KALIANE BRADLEY Gripping... hauntingly beautiful MADELINE MILLER A big, bold, ecstatic world full of heart and wonder RUTH OZEKISix hundred years. Five interlocking lives.An immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home.It s 1983 and Becks can t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.The game will outlast Becks by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a pirate captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew.Homebound is a coming-out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity s future and capacity for love. READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND Beautiful and heartfelt... A masterpiece Reader Review So heart-achingly good Reader Review Nobody should miss this immersive and vulnerable debut Reader Review Beautifully ambitious... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence Reader Review I ll be recommending this title to everyone Northwood Library I really fell in love with the ambition and scope Portobello Books, Edinburgh Reading it will change you, in both heart and mind Auntie s Bookstore, Washington If you liked Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, you are going to fall for this book, and fall HARD Crow & Co Books, Minnesota For anyone who loved Cloud Cuckoo Land or Cloud Atlas An Unlikely Story, Massachusetts