No Place Like Home
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Plot Summary of No Place Like Home

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Ballantine, Jan 2002, 23.95, 320 pp.
ISBN: 0345445651

    As a teen over two decades ago, Jewel Sabatino fled her Pueblo, Colorado home never looking back over the years. However, the Greenwich Village resident knows that it is time to go home. So Jewel, her teenage son Shane, and her dying best friend Michael Shaunessey return to her hometown not sure of the welcome she will receive.

    In Pueblo, Jewel is back in the fold of her Italian family except for her unforgiving father, who has not spoken to her in all this time. He refuses to welcome back his daughter. The rest of the family opens their arms to Jewel and her entourage. Michael's brother Malachi arrives to help his sibling through his final days. However, as death is in the air, renewal is too as Malachi and Jewel begin to fall in love, but will then family crisis keep a relationship from fully forming between them?

    NO PLACE LIKE HOME is an insightful relationship drama that plays out on several stages. The key cast is a warm ensemble though they seem stiff at times, but the story line belongs to the lead protagonist. Jewel feels like sandwich meat trapped between the two generations that surround her as well as trying to come to grips with her different types of love for the Shaunessey siblings. Barbara Samuel shows that with love you can go home even if much has changed in the interim.

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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Who is... - physically ill
Inner struggle subplot Yes
Struggle with... - (general) search for identity/new understanding
Hidden Identity/Secret Motive Yes
Matchmake, (will/family) Yes
Family focus? Yes
Family, sick/caring for Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - business executive
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - West

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Focus of story - many multiple characters
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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