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But Where's Home?: A Novella and Stories

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232 pages, Hardcover

Published February 10, 2026

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Toni Ann Johnson

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Toni Ann Johnson won the 2024 Screen Door Press Prize for Fiction with her linked collection, BUT WHERE'S HOME? (UPK 2026)

In 2021, she won the Flannery O'Connor Award for her linked short story collection LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE(UGA Press 2022). The collection was shortlisted for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, and also shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize.

A novella, HOMEGOING, won Accents Publishing's inaugural novella contest in 2020 and was released in May of 2021.

Short fiction and essays have been published in The Emerson Review, Hunger Mountain, Fiction Magazine, Callaloo, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.

A novel, Remedy For a Broken Angel, was published in 2014 and received a nomination for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author.

Johnson is a screenwriter with a number of produced projects to her credit including, "Ruby Bridges" (ABC), "Crown Heights (Showtime), The Courage to Love (Lifetime) the TV pilot "Save The Last Dance" (Fox Television) and the feature film, "Step Up 2: The Streets" (Summit Entertainment). She won the 1998 Humanitas Prize and the 1998 Christopher Award for Ruby Bridges. In 2004 she won a second Humanitas Prize for Crown Heights. She is also the recipient of a fellowship to the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab.

Johnson has received support for her writing from Callaloo (Fellow 2016), The Prague Summer Program for Writers (Vaclav Havel scholarship, 2016) , One Story Summer Conference (2018) The Hurston Wright Foundation (Fellow, 2021), The Atlantic Center for the Arts (2023), Kimbilio (Fellow 2024), and The Community of Writers (2025).



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Profile Image for lami ☆.
114 reviews76 followers
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
January 4, 2026
⋆ ׁ── five stars🪴
It's so exhilarating, starting a reading year with five stars. There's so much I want to say about each of the short stories, because I could write a full-length review on every single one of them. There wasn't a single one I didn't like. And the truth is, when an author can elicit anger, disgust, frustration, and sympathy from you in 200 pages, you just have to be astounded.

But Where's Home? is such a beautiful collection of intertwined short stories that revolves around an upper-middle-class Black family — the Arlingtons — in a predominantly white, working-class community and spans decades from the 1960s to 2022. We get to see the perspective of so many characters, though Livia, Maddie, Velma and Phil are the main narrators for most of the stories (Livia having the least, and I wish I'd heard more from her). They face a lot of rejection, neglect, and racism on top of so many other issues. It's Livia I felt the most for, if we don't count the burning hatred I had for Phil. The collection also touches on the cycle of emotional and physical abuse and breaking free. I also love the full circle moment of the story starting and ending from a perspective on the other side, one in entering into the world, and the other exiting.

The writing is so disgustingly good, I literally would wake up anticipating starting a new chapter. I was boiling with rage whenever Phil was the narrator, because he's a narcissist, delusional, no good fool and worst of all, a terrible father, who treats his daughters like he treats his affairs. I always felt so conflicted when it came to Velma, though. Most times, I'd be so embarrassed and irritated by her, but other times, I'd see how afraid she was. She was an excellent abuser, and I wish her the worst.

Some of my favourite stories were: Getting There, Home, Neighbours, To the Moon and But Where's Home, and I know that's basically the entire book, but if you'd read it, you'd understand why.

As Grandma Emily says at the end ' Before I lose my memory, I will have learned that in mothering there is no making up for the love you don't give. What you do or don't do with your offspring — the good and bad — makes the mold that shapes them.'. I believe that both Livia and Maddie will make a better mould for the ones that come after them.

I want to express a very heartfelt appreciation to NetGalley, University Press of Kentucky, Screen Door Press, and Toni Ann Johnson for sending me an e-arc in exchange for an honest review!
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17 reviews63 followers
November 20, 2025
This is a beautifully written heartbreaking book that talks about the sins of the past and how they affect the present. Reckoning with absent parents and how that plays out in one’s life. I love the format of how it’s written over time but it also jumps back and forth through time. You would think that would take you out the story but the pacing is so good that you’ll be locked in. I can’t wait to read more from this author.
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89 reviews4 followers
November 24, 2025
Thank you Netgalley, University Press of Kentucky, and Screen Door Press for an ARC

I recommend researching trigger warnings prior to reading. This was a powerful collection of short stories within a novella. Johnson beautifully developed characters as you follow along their journeys across time and points of view. Addressed heavy topics of racism, classism, childhood trauma, etc. impact people for life. Each scene was visceral and powerful. I look forward to reading other works by Johnson.
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221 reviews11 followers
January 12, 2026
Estamos a principios de año, pero este libro sin duda va a ser una de mis mejores lecturas este año. Hacía mucho que no leía un libro con unos personajes tan grises y tan complejos pero con cada una de sus acciones justificadas. Por si fuera poco, he sentido un abanico de emociones tan amplio —ternura, frustración, melancolía, odio fundamentado…— durante la lectura que me cuesta creer que hayan sucedido tantas cosas en el lapso de apenas 200 páginas.

En esta novella y colección de relatos, seguimos la vida de una familia a lo largo de los años a través de varios personajes. Si bien el libro no sigue una estructura lineal —hay continuos saltos en el tiempo— y narran un número considerable de personajes, en ningún momento te llegas a perder porque cada uno de ellos está tan bien construido que sus intervenciones son indudablemente suyas y te podrías dar cuenta de quien habla con rapidez incluso si al principio de cada capítulo o historia corta no se mencionara el nombre del personaje que narra o, como en el caso de Velma, se siguiera su vida en tercera persona.

Esto me lleva al punto que ya he mencionado: todos, TODOS los personajes cometen en mayor o medida acciones cuestionables y, sin embargo, logras empatizar también en mayor o medida entre ellos. Quizá esto se daba a que ninguno de ellos es una mala persona per se, pero sí que han recibido muchos palos por parte de la vida.

La familia es negra, y esto juega un papel central en la obra, pues está ambientada en la Nueva York de las décadas de los 60, 70 y 80 sobre todo. El libro comienza con ellos mudándose a una barriada habitada únicamente por personas blancas, y ni siquiera sus trabajos —considerados «socialmente aceptables» porque implicaban un título universitario— los libraron de ser víctimas de numerosos estereotipos e insultos racistas.

Encontrar tu lugar partiendo de una estructura familiar casi en ruinas puede ser complicado, y este libro lo demuestra. Una lectura entrañable y desgarradora a partes iguales a la que muy probablemente acabaré volviendo con el paso del tiempo.

Muchas gracias a Netgalley y la editorial por confiarme una copia avanzada del libro. Gracias a ambas, he podido descubrir esta lectura que sin duda os recomiendo.
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44 reviews
December 20, 2025
From the 1960s to 2022 we get to follow a black family and their struggles in white neighborhoods, absent, sometimes abusive parents, infidelity and so much more. The eldest daughter who never got the love she longed for from her father, the second daughter who has had a traumatic childhood, a misogynist for a father and an abusive mother/step mother.


What I liked
‣ the ending
‣ the book definitely delivered all that it promised


What I disliked
‣ the middle felt kind of long


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Thank you Netgalley for the copy.
The beginning was kind of confusing at first, but once you get past that it starts making more sense. The ending was absolutely beautiful, I loved how it was written. I also liked how each character in their head was in the right and how they justified their actions when in reality no one was in the right most of the time. The characters felt real and overall I think the book was very well written.
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Author 3 books5 followers
February 11, 2026
But Where’s Home? is the compelling expansion of the Anderson family whom Toni Ann Johnson first introduced in her short story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste. These character’s, specifically Maddie, Livia, Velma and Philip, return with a vengeance of self, exploring the complexities of their tumultuous relationships, racism and bigotry and inner demons. Told across generations, weaving back and forth through time and through varying lenses of a family tree, Johnson seamlessly moves from character to character, wholly inhabiting different perspectives and voice, providing insight into each character’s growth and demise.

The carefully calculated pacing of this story maximizes the effect of the progression and regression of each character. At times, Johnson is playful with perspective, adding layered nuances to scenes and added complexities to the characters. At no time does Johnson hold back. These characters are delivered with unfiltered and often brutal honesty of what it means to be a flawed human facing difficult circumstances and difficult truths. Every character is a protagonist. Every character is the hero and the anti-hero. And every character will linger long after you finish the last page. Johnson is a master of her craft and once again delivers a must-read collection of stories.
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32 reviews4 followers
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
February 2, 2026
A husband cannot accept a shred of responsibility for the destruction he causes whilst engaging in a string of affairs with various white women, a mother takes out her anger regarding the infidelity on her daughter, the youngest daughter attempts to combat her trauma through music, and an eldest daughter seeks the approval of a father who left her behind.

In 1963 in Monroe, a small town in New York, the Arringtons, a middle-upper class Black family move into a house in an all-white neighbourhood. A few residents are somewhat welcoming to Philip, his wife Velma, and their daughters, Livia and Maddie, but most react with hatred, taking on both quiet and loud means of expressing their disapproval. Still, alongside attempting to navigate this environment and their own lives, a considerable amount of the families plight lies within their relationships with one another. Philip and Velma’s marriage is in shambles with Philip’s infidelity being taken out on poor Maddie. Livia, as Philip’s child from his first marriage, responds to her anger regarding alienation by deciding her sister stole what should have been her ‘perfect life’. Philip treats his children as extensions of himself, only bothering with them in between affairs when he has no other woman to entertain him. In a series of beautifully written, evocative interconnected short stories following the Arringtons, Tori Ann Johnson offers a look into life as a Black family in America, racism, classism, grief, loneliness, growing up, generational abuse and deeply complex familial relationships. Whilst she offers the perspective of all four members of the family (and then some), the writer allows the reader to draw their own conclusions and battle with the intricacies of human nature.

This collection is as melancholy as it is political, and yet Tori Ann Johnson weaves humour and love within every story. The characters were so vibrant, the writing style shifts and flows with every perspective allowing itself to accurately represent the narrator. One of my pet-peeves in multi-pov books has to be when the characters all possess the same narrative voice and blend into one, and this collection is the direct opposite of that. I mourned for Maddie’s childhood, despised Phil’s ways of treating his daughters so flippantly, and raged at Velma’s narcissism. Johnson does not tell us that one character is wrong and another right, because life is not that simple and neither are people, instead, we bear witness to their lives and suffering and are able to sympathise (though this does Not mean we simply accept their behaviours as correct, Phil you will begin to cough in three days) (P.S that was a joke, Phil may be the bane of my existence but is just as multi-faceted as the others as his internalised racism seems to rule his entire existence) (I could not even bring myself to make light of Phil’s character without adding an additional remark on his own struggles because Johnson is just that good at writing frustrating characters). Whilst Livia’s jealousy towards Maddie is understandable from her own perspective, it is small-minded and selfish. Much like most of humanity, the members of this family seem unable to see that they are not the only people who are suffering/have suffered. Velma, in particular, was vexing. Her childhood is tragic, and yet that, of course, does not give her a pass for her abuse of Maddie. This tale though, as saddening as it is, is horrifically real to read. The character work at play here is masterful. I could write an entire essay on all four members of the Arrington family but instead I will condense it into saying that reading this was akin to being told a story by one of my own family members. The whole family is so very real, they jump off the page and irritate me as if I could call them up and ask them what their problem is. Livia and Maddie were my two favourite perspectives to read, two lost girls growing up lonely with a father only the other truly understands, even so the sisters are incapable of seeing how they would find such understanding if only they could reach out. That is possibly the most upsetting part of this book, all of the things that are left unsaid.

The social commentary is neatly entwined with every story, the effect was incredibly profound and thought-provoking. The story ‘Neighbours’ is in the perspective of the Arringtons white neighbours who think themselves accepting, but reading the story their racism bleeds through the pages, just because their racism does not take the form of egging the Arringtons house or usage of vile slurs does not mean their prejudices do not exist, it just means they exist in a different form. One of the themes tackled in this book is trauma and generational abuse. Johnson questions compassion and how much can be afforded to a victim who goes on to abuse people, she also expertly grapples with loving someone who has hurt you time and time again. I found myself pondering all sorts of questions concerning existence: does death and grief erase the sting of pain, leaving behind a more positive picture than we previously had? Does anyone truly know anyone else at all? Never fear, for all is not bleak, because Johnson also looks at breaking free from the stifling cycle of abuse.

This short-story collection is extremely relevant and full of resilience in a sea of hurt.
Thank you to the publisher via NetGalley for the Ebook ARC of this book.
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5 reviews2 followers
August 14, 2025
But Where’s Home? by Toni Ann Johnson is a powerful, layered collection that captures both the quiet and overt ways racism, classism, and family dynamics shape a life. Through the lens of the Arrington family navigating an all-white neighborhood in 1960s Monroe, New York, and spanning decades beyond Johnson offers a deeply human portrait of resilience, longing, and identity.
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47 reviews1 follower
February 27, 2026
‘But Where’s Home?’ tells of familial dysfunction from so many points of view that you can’t ‘pick a side’, which is perhaps the entire point. It highlights the struggles of being an upwardly mobile, black family in a white community in late 20th century US - and all the characters, in their respective ways, grapple with questions of identity and belonging. There is a broader commentary to be made about how living under ‘siege’ breeds interpersonal and generational violence. When even home cannot be the refuge from a hostile outside world, you’re not getting a regulated, well-adjusted child. But the novella also tells of Black excellence—of how they thrive, as individuals (if regrettably not as a family unit) in spite of the hand they have been dealt.

There were times I was just not convinced by the dialogue; insults exchanged between characters could feel like cliche after cliche. I found the narrative a bit too fragmented for my liking - the writing could’ve been more impactful had we stayed with each character for longer, given how quickly the author shifted perspectives, sometimes jumping between decades. I understand how this may have been a stylistic choice; it allows us to see the familial dynamic within its full context to appreciate its messiness. I found particularly poignant Livia’s reflection on her own childhood whilst pregnant with her first child, desiring to break from the mould she was handed. She sympathises with how her father had received the same mould from his mother, but decides that this does not absolve him of his neglect of her. This is but one example of how the author does not resort to binaries to tell her story, aptly portraying the complexity and contradictory nature of the human experience.

I thought the ending held some of the best writing in the whole book, written from the grandmother’s perspective postmortem, as she continues to watch her offspring’s lives unfold. She acknowledges both the rot within the family, to which she herself has contributed, but is also hopeful for forgiveness and reconciliation. This is not a family that may necessarily be ‘mended’, but there are still moments of genuine connection between its members that are heartwarming and telling of resilience.

Nothing groundbreaking overall, but an enjoyable read! Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
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41 reviews
March 8, 2026
Thank you to NetGalley, University Press of Kentucky and Screen Door Press for the copy in exchange for an honest review.

Honestly, I don’t understand how Toni Ann Johnson isn’t more widely known, and why book people aren’t talking more about this book. But Where’s Home? is a collection of connected stories that together almost form a novel.

I absolutely loved the writing. It feels very raw and real, like reading a family diary. Each chapter is told by a different character, and slowly you start to see the full picture of a deeply broken family.

What struck me is how the characters treat their trauma. They minimize it, push it aside, and keep going with the classic line: “look how I turned out, I’m pretty good.” But as a reader you can clearly see the damage underneath.
The story starts with a Black family moving into a white neighborhood, where racism quickly becomes part of their everyday life. From there we follow the family across many years, through divorce, abuse, jealousy, emotional neglect, and the passing down of trauma from one generation to the next.

The same events look completely different depending on who is telling the story, which makes the multiple POVs really engaging and the book very difficult to put down. The lies we tell ourselves as we write the stories of our lives could be very well a title for Phil's and Velma's chapters
The characters feel extremely real, like people you could meet in your own neighborhood. They are flawed, emotionally stunted, and often hurt each other, but their behavior always makes sense once you understand the experiences that shaped them. Maddie ended up being my favorite character and narrator. And when she asks "But where's home?", the title finally makes sense and my heart broke for her.

What didn’t work quite as well for me was the structure. The story can feel fragmented when switching POVs so often, and I found myself wishing I could spend more time with some of the characters. Except Phil — I never wished for more of him. I also would have liked more from Livia and the relationship between the two sisters.

Still, this is a powerful and very honest book that will stay with me long after finishing it.

Favourite quote: "In mothering, there is no making up for the love that you don't give"
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2 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
January 26, 2026
Thank you, Netgalley, University Press of Kentucky, and Screen Door Press, for an ARC

A must-read collection of stories that will linger in your thoughts long after reading them.

This is a gripping, deeply emotional collection of interconnected short stories that follows the Arringtons, an upper- middle- class black family, navigating life between the 1960s and 2022 after moving to an all- white neighborhood in Monroe. These stories are told from multiple perspectives from the family tree with a focus on four main characters: Phil, Velma, Maddie and Livia.

Woven back and forth through time, Johnson's narrative style offers an intimate look into each character's experiences and emotions with striking authenticity. You feel anger, despair, confusion and grief as the characters confront the racism, neglect, and bias that ultimately shaped their lives. Phil's stories included moments that make you recoil and leave you speechless. Cycles of trauma and abuse are explored through Maddie and Velma, highlighting the painful complexities of their intimate relationship. Livia's perspective reflects heartbreaking truths alongside profound emotional growth as she ages. Johnson seamlessly created flawed characters you may struggle to support, yet still ache for.

I thoroughly enjoyed this as my first read by this author and look forward to exploring more of her work.
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154 reviews2 followers
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
February 4, 2026
Thank you to Toni Ann Johnson and Kentucky University Press for this free advance copy via Netgalley. This review is being left voluntarily and the opinions are my own.

What an interesting story. This would not be my usual genre but I am conscious that I need to be reading/listening to books that address more serious themes and issues, especially those that pertain to me as a woman of colour. 

Toni Ann does a great job of discussing themes of racism, discrimination, colourism and social injustice. Although this book is set in the 60s and progress has supposedly been made since then, several of the issues adresssed are very much alive and there are people still dealing with them today.

I found it particularly interesting to hear things from the perspective of the white neighbours, especially the way in which they were happy to support their black neighbours as long as trouble didn't come to their own door.

Another poignant point was that because the white family didn't experience prejudice or discrimination themselves, they didn't think it was still happening. As a woman of colour, this is a sentiment I feel is still expressed today and it leads you to question how much have things really changed? 

This book is a thought-provoking and important read for anyone wanting to educate themselves on the difficuties faced by ethnic minorities to this day.
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76 reviews1 follower
March 2, 2026
Thank you, Tori Ann Johnson and University Press of Kentucky for offering an arc via NetGalley!

This one was heavy and there's so much to unpack.
Even as someone who understands how deeply racism and segregation shaped parenting styles and survival instincts, I still found Maddie's parents difficult to fully empathize with at times. But I think that's part of the power of this story. It doesn't simplify nor soften the damage.

Following Maddie from childhood into adulthood, the story centers on her growing up caught between her parents, Velma and Phil, while also giving us perspectives from her half-sister Livia, their cousin Suzy, and other family members. Each viewpoint adds dimension to the generational wounds, misunderstandings, and love that exist within this family.

There are painful moments but there are also flashes of humor and warmth, especially as Maddie begins to find herself through music and pursue her dreams. Watching her carve out space for herself feels hard-earned and meaningful.

This is an important, emotional, and thought-provoking read. It challenges you. It moves you. And it absolutely doesn't let you
11 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
February 2, 2026
A hard hitting book that tackles some really important themes and issues. Although set primarily in the 1970s, these issues remain extremely relevant and thought-provoking in 2026.

As the husband of a black woman, some elements of the story were hard to read, knowing that my wife still experiences discrimination because of her skin colour more than 50 years after the story takes place.

I enjoyed how narrative was threaded together via the multiple sub plots involving the different members of the family and their differenr struggles - grief, childhood trauma, abandonment issues, addiction.

I also thought the character development was strong throughout, with the snapshots of different stages of the protagonists' lives and narration from multiple POVs.

Overall, a profound read that left me with plenty to think about in terms of love, relationships and what we leave behind after we are gone.

Highly recommend.
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191 reviews15 followers
Review of advance copy received from Author
January 12, 2026
Johnson shows us that some parts of the cycles of trauma are seeped in grief and heartbreak, in jealousy and the tender ache for care. I cried reading this book—understanding Livia’s sense of burden between her parents, knowing Maddie’s torn sensation between being trapped and fleeing, being frustrated at Phil’s arrogance, wanting to shake Velma out of her rage.

Johnson writes, “there is no making up the love you don’t give.” And the complex relationships between this family and the circle around them makes that message so clear. What is unhealed continues, what the healing asks is sometimes too hard. We make a way, the best ways we can, and it’s lucky when we decide to take care of each other.
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17 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
February 3, 2026
An excellent work of fiction that reveals what it looks like to break the cycle of abuse. But Where's Home? is deeply human but scientific in its depiction of intergenerational trauma, complex PTSD and family systems. I couldn't put it down and found myself laughing out loud consistently despite the heavier subject matter. This book is perfect for readers who love an epic family drama with all of its scandal and turmoil. I would also recommend it as a form of self-help fiction that could inspire readers who have lived through trauma or familial conflict. It has lyrical prose, a strong sense of place and plenty of poignant reflections to annotate from beginning to end.
25 reviews
November 4, 2025
Thanks to the author and the publisher to giving me the opportunity to read this book through NetGalley

In this book we follow the Arrington family through decades of fights, guilt feelings and resentements... A disfunctional poc family that lives in a preponderantly white town near NY

With time jumps and the use of multiple point of views we see how racism, classism and childhood trauma can forge the identity of people and have effects in adulthood

I recommend this book but take care if you have some triggers

Triggers:

Racism
Violence
Emotional and physical abuse
SA of child
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161 reviews9 followers
March 5, 2026
I wish I had been able to squeeze this one into my book club's Black History Month pick. This is a series of interconnected stories that gives so many opportunities for discussion!

I won't talk about each story or narrator individually because I think that would take up too much space, but there is a story called Daughtered Out that really resonated with me. It's about thriving in spite of, and I think there are a lot of folks who will feel this one.

Also, Phil is an ass.

Thank you, Netgalley, for this arc!
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Author 16 books85 followers
February 20, 2026
Johnson's prose is as absorbing and beautifully written as ever, and her stories unfold new layers of the Arrington family's travails as one of very few black families in upstate New York. The stories are scattered across space and time and in different points of view as Johnson weaves them together to evoke larger feelings, knowing that past and present are the same in the larger experience of being human. Simply gorgeous.
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30 reviews
March 7, 2026
A beautiful collection of stories that will really touch your heart. This author does a wonderful job of reflecting on the question of Where is home? I've often wondered about that as to where we are before we come here and picking our family. She really resonated with me when it came to that. The writing is eloquent and graceful. She touches deep within. It's a beautiful read.
20 reviews
February 26, 2026
Toni Ann Thompson’s a master story teller.

I was drawn into the story almost immediately and as soon as I finished reading it I returned to chapter 1 and finally understood so much more about the mother daughter relationship. Without giving too much away, the plots (it’s a novella and several short stories) center the traumas of the main characters (mother wounds, racism and narcissistic parents). I thoroughly disliked every adult in this book (without exception, lol) even while understanding how they too were victims of harmful adults while they were children. In a way, But Where’s Home reminded me of Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Both works ask us to examine what happens when love, especially familial love is twisted and perverted. Where is home for the children of those families? What communities must rise up to protect and support them.

A worthy read and I look forward to her next work!

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this wonderful arc.
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208 reviews
February 23, 2026
I got a lot of insight into what it’s like having narcissistic parents.

Thanks to the University Press of Kentucky for the ARC!
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4,202 reviews26 followers
March 5, 2026
Gorgeous, powerful set of short stories in novella that tackle difficult topics unflinchingly. Also, a beautiful cover. 5 stars. tysm for the arc.
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