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<p><P>Spanning the 100-day Persian Gulf War and a small California town's girls' basketball season, <i>Home and Away</i> is the story of Hedy Gallagher Castle, a woman who has reached a crossroads in her life. A straddler by nature, Hedy finds herself doing a balancing act on all fronts as her daughter approaches womanhood, her father enters a no-man's-land of bewilderment after a stroke, and her husband departs in search of the lost athletic glory of his youth. At the same time, the divisive political issues of the greater world&#151;the Gulf War, abortion, gay rights, and fundamentalism&#151;encroach on Hedy's increasingly fragile private one. As the tensions mount, Hedy learns to take a side&#151;her own side&#151;for the first time in her life, reawakening to a sense of love and loss.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Hedy Gallagher Castle measures out the days of this story by the calendar of the Persian Gulf War and the schedule of her daughter's high school basketball team. These two ``home and away'' battles create a rich metaphorical backdrop for Hedy's own struggle to find her own center. Married for 19 years to Ward Castle, two-time world record-holder in speed-skiing, Hed

Author

Meschery, Joanne

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520213425

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities