homecoming

Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place(and the man)she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.

Martin Owenby, having moved to New York City thirty years earlier to pursue a career as an author but ended up living a life full of drinking and flings with men, returns home after the disappearance of his brother, Leon, and is forced to face his regrets, family members, and old friends.

The sheep dog Mack is the only constant in his owner Justine Mead's life, and when she travels back to her childhood home Mack is lost and then found by the couple Alice and Ed Parmalee who are mourning the death of their daughter.

The rise and fall of Arcadia, a hippy commune, and its lasting impact on Bit, a gifted young man.