Home Making

<p><strong>An intricate exploration of family and home of mother and child of friends of women and written with both precision and style.--Weike Wang author of <em>Chemistry</em></strong></p><p><strong>From a talented powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning novel about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity family legacy and what it means to make a house a true home.</strong></p><p>Cybil is a war child--the result of a brief affair between a young Japanese woman and a French soldier--who at a young age is transplanted to Tucson Arizona and raised by an American officer and his rigid wife. After a rebellious adolescence she grows up to become a successful ob-gyn. </p><p>Chloe Cybil's daughter is adrift in an empty house in the hills of Virginia. Her marriage has fallen apart and her estranged husband is dying of cancer. Room by room Chloe makes her new house into a home grappling always with the real and imagined boundaries that limit her as a single childless woman in contemporary America.</p><p>Beau Chloe's closest friend is in love with a man he's only met on the internet who lives across the country. Shepherding Chloe through her grief he is often called back to his loud humid chaotic childhood in Southwest Louisiana where he first reckoned with the intricate ties between queerness loneliness and place. </p><p>Through each of these characters Matalone weaves a moving beautiful narrative of home identity and belonging. <em>Home Making</em> is a somber yet hopeful ode to the stories we tell ourselves in order to make a family. </p>