When Trying to Return Home Format:Hardcover and preacher Nona Jones takes

and preacher Nona Jones takes readers on a personal journey to discovering the difference between success and good success so that they can experience God's power to deliver them from even the deepest pain

they have to deal with their dysfunctional family relationships

where he lived until he was six years old

from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own

For one woman

When Trying to Return Home Format:Hardcover and preacher Nona Jones takesA dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyondand an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own termsProfoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free