Description
'A joy -- at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human.... it kept me up all night!' MADELINE MILLER
Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game.
And the many paths that can lead us home.
It's 1983 and Becks can't wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. In the meantime, she has work to do: her uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.
What Becks is coding will outlast her by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a desperate sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across time, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew and bring them home.
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.
About the Author
Portia Elan studied history at Stanford University and earned an MFA from the University of Victoria before returning to California, where she has worked as a waitress, bookseller, teacher and public librarian. She was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and an abundance of cats. Homebound is her first novel.
Reviews
Elan's debut Homebound is a joy -- at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human. Inventive and gritty, powerful and clear-eyed, it kept me up all night! -- MADELINE MILLER
I absolutely inhaled it! What a gorgeous debut -- beautifully written, so much fun and so thoughtful -- ELLA RISBRIDGER
Book Information
ISBN 9781784746162
Author Portia Elan
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Chatto & Windus
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 750g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 156mm * 40mm
