Homecoming

Raqia a teenage girl who immigrated to Texas from Lebanon as a toddler has felt the subtle pang of loneliness most of her life: she has no siblings and her widowed father stayed behind when Raqia and her grandmother left Beirut to escape dangerous wolf packs terrorizing the city.These wolves were not just animals however. They were also people.Homecoming is set in a present-day world where ones Animal Affinity emerges usually during adolescence to signal ones burgeoning into adulthood.Raqia and her two best friends Anabelle and Eddie navigate homecoming at their high school while the threatening undercurrent of wolf packs encroaches around their city. Complicating all of this are two things: first charismatic Eddie himself is a wolf--though not he claims associated with one of the gangs engaging in violent criminal behavior; second Anabelles emotional swings grow more wild as one of the girls begins to evince her Animal Affinity. The balance between this trio--and the friendships which matter in Raqias life--are on the cusp of an irrevocable shift.