A Way Home

The characters in the twenty stories in Nahid Rachlin's short story collection, A Way Home, mostly set in Iran and America, not only long for home but face the question: Where, really, is my home? Themes of separation--children from parents, spouses from each other--are the core of this collection. The characters, searching for what they have left behind, sometimes find what they were hoping for; at other times, are devastated. In stories filled with tension and often ending in surprise, we are reminded of the pull of home on each character, wherever home is.