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Every first Sunday in June, people of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at "the old home place", a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And each year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and dedicated young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children again for the festivities. The kids adopt the reunion as a welcome escape from the prying sight of the father's congregation; for Willadee from the precious opportunity to spend time with her mom and dad, Calla and John. And the reunion gets under way, tragedy hits, jolting the family with their core: John's untimely fatality and, soon after, the loss of Samuel's parish, which placed the level for a summer season of crisis and serious change. Amid it all, Samuel and Willadee's outspoken 11-year-old little girl, Swan, is a excellent light. Her high spirits and fearlessness have alternately seduced and bedeviled three years of the family. But it is Blade Ballenger, a traumatized eight-year-old neighbor, who soon captures Swan's undivided attention. Filled with righteous anger, and innocent of the peril facing her and those she loves, Swan helps it be her mission to keep carefully the boy safe from his terrifying father. With character types who spring to life as vividly as if they were people of your respective own family, and with the clear-eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic - and triumphant - areas of human characteristics, Jenny Wingfield emerges among the most vital, participating storytellers writing today. In The Homecoming of Samuel Lake she's created a memorable and long-term work of fiction.
