Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins

‘A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest’

JOHN BOYNE, author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies

‘Why hadn’t she said to her daughter I love you beyond reason and none of this matters at all and every day that you breathe is a gift?’

Rafaela Acuna y Daubon remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth and Benny, to the American Midwest, and losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip.

Her daughter, in New York with a family of her own, wishes she could forget her muddy feelings about where she comes from – the same feelings which motivated her 22-year-old daughter Daisy to reconnect with their past.

Daisy, who has momentarily forgotten everything, hears the word critical in a hospital room in San Juan and remembers, all at once, the car that hurtled towards her, the terrible storm, and something else. What was it?

Now Ruth and Rafaela must return to the city where it all began, to gather by Daisy’s bedside and confront the twists of fate that have caused a growing rift in their family and led them to this moment.

Can the truth bring them back together before it’s too late? A classic novel of a family in crisis, from the author of the runaway bestseller AMERICAN DIRT

About the Author: Jeanine Cummins is the author of AMERICAN DIRT, which has sold over 3.5 million copies globally, and has been translated into 37 languages, the novels THE OUTSIDE BOY, THE CROOKED BRANCH and the true crime work A RIP IN HEAVEN, all of which are published by Tinder Press. AMERICAN DIRT was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and the Richard and Judy Book Club and was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller, and reached no. 2 in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

13 May 2025
 

Speak to Me of Home: From the author of the runaway bestseller American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins ISBN 9781472288813