Homecoming

A detailed Summary of Homecoming

Homecoming's most important part takes place a few hours outside of Manhattan at Annette's, the Grandmother of the Byrne family, elegant country home. Most of the family, Gene, Ellen, Mark, Aaron, Brenda, Cynthia, Andrew, live in Manhattan. Lewis and Daisy live in Washington. It happens during the winter.

Annette Byrne is the mother of Gene and Lewis. The two brothers grew up close and worked together in an architecture firm. One evening at an opening party, for a hotel that they had constructed with their successful firm, collapsed. Many people died, and many were seriously injured. They went to trial and it was very dirty and tore the brothers apart. For the next many years the two brothers didn't' talk. Gene's daughter Ellen and Lewis' daughter Cynthia didn't talk often and they lived in the same city. Gene's daughter Ellen left her fiance, a very wealthy well-known man, for Mark. Mark worked in an art gallery, and they fell in love. Gene didn't' approve of this, but dealt with it. Gene gave her a hard time about her marriage for a long time, because Mark was Jewish. Mark's parents were Aaron and Brenda. Aaron was a doctor, and Brenda was a social worker. Gene and Aaron met on

Everyone, now back in the house, slowly began to get along; everyone except for Cynthia and Mark. Gene and Lewis came to an understanding about their whole fiasco, Daisy began to talk to Mark, and Gene had been friendly with Aaron. That night Mark went to Cynthia's room. He refused to leave, and fell asleep on her floor. She woke up in the middle of the night and covered him with a blanket. He woke up, and they talked and decided to save their marriage. Everyone goes to sleep peacefully that night, and the family is one again.

Annette had enough of all of this foolish fighting. She sneakily sent letters to each member of the family inviting them to come out and stay at her house. Each member of the family didn't know of the other member's invitation.

I found this book wonderful. This was the best book I have read this year. It was short and to the point. There weren't many, if any, boring parts of this book. Homecoming was an easy read, and I would recommend it to anyone. It sent a strong message, and left you with a good feeling.

After lunch, Ellen takes her two children down to the pond to see the swans. While they were down there Lucy ran down after the swans and fell into the icy lake. Ellen ran after her and fell in too. Mark saw this and ran to the lake, he was followed by the rest of the family. Andrew got a rope and tied Daisy to it. Daisy went in the

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Approximate Word count = 939
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels