What is it about?
The book focuses on orphan figures in a broad, multi-ethnic range of contemporary fiction by Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Barbara Kingsolver, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Toni Morrison.
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Why is it important?
From a decisively literary perspective, _Making home_ engages with socio-political concerns such as mixed-race families, child welfare, and racial and national identity. It is a crucial study for anybody who is interested in the links between literature and identity, questions of exclusion and inclusion in national ideology, and definitions of family and childhood.
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This page is a summary of: Making home, August 2014, Manchester University Press,
DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719089596.001.0001.
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