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Despite an awkward attempt in the epilogue to make connections among the different locales and ruminate on the idea of home, "Braving Home" reads mainly like a quick travelogue and a series of disconnected encounters.
Graffiti close to his home reads: "S.
"No place like home," reads the embroidered message facing the door.
Make yourself at home," reads a sign behind the guard at the front door.
Even his best work, the affecting 2003 novel, "Timoleon Vieta Come Home," reads like a series of connected stories.
"George W. Bush's Childhood Home," reads the sign in front of 1410 Ohio Street, which the family owned from late 1951 to late 1956.
Even when I behaved like a drunk idiot last night, you remained patient and even carried me some of my drunken way home!" reads one message.
Home reads like the obbligato beneath Gilead's descant: where Gilead is consoling, Home is almost frighteningly sad; where Gilead offers benediction, Home offers only valediction.
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