The Homecoming of Samuel Lake. Jenny Wingfield

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      For Taylor, Amy, and Lori—who never once said they wished I was normal.

      For Jim, Ruth, Clif, and Hal—who probably said it, but not where I could hear.

      And for Charlie and Leon—because.

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      John Moses couldn’t have chosen a worse day, or a…

      Chapter 2

      This is the way it happened.

      Chapter 3

      Kinfolk started pouring in early the next morning. Pulling up…

      Chapter 4

      The first hour was the worst. Willadee’s brothers kept the…

      Chapter 5

      Sometimes, when Geraldine Ballenger wasn’t trying to think, but was…

      Chapter 6

      Uncle Toy had not spoken to Swan once since the…

      Chapter 7

      The little lane wound and twisted and tapered down to…

      Chapter 8

      The bed Swan slept in was so high she always…

      Chapter 9

      Bernice could hardly stand the way she felt the next…

      Chapter 10

      The way you trained a horse was, you taught it…

      Chapter 11

      Swan and her brothers had given up playing War Spies…

      Chapter 12

      Ras Ballenger had better things to do with his day…

      Chapter 13

      Bernice was wise enough not go on too much about…

      Chapter 14

      Samuel was out on the Macedonia highway, heading for the…

      Chapter 15

      On the first Friday in July, Odell Pritchett called from…

      Chapter 16

      Blade had no idea how long it would take for…

      Chapter 17

      Sheriff Early Meeks was born prematurely, back at the turn…

      Chapter 18

      In Blade’s dreams, he was running along the edge of…

      Chapter 19

      Ras knew that pretty soon, unless he could figure some…

      Chapter 20

      At breakfast, Samuel asked the rest of the family whether…

      Chapter 21

      As soon as Blade realized what was up, he lit…

      Chapter 22

      Willadee knew that Samuel was going to get a cool…

      Chapter 23

      What Swan intended to do was rescue Blade Ballenger. It…

      Chapter 24

      Willadee saw them coming when they topped a rise far…

      Chapter 25

      Swan was dead asleep. The little scuffling sounds of someone…

      Chapter 26

      Toy woke up around four o’clock that afternoon, not because…

      Chapter 27

      Time rocked on.

      Chapter 28

      The first thing Toy did after he got to his…

      Chapter 29

      Ras Ballenger didn’t think much of people in general, and…

      Chapter 30

      Millard Hempstead and his buddy, Scotty Dumas (who lived in…

      Chapter 31

      The surgery was tricky and took hours. According to Doc…

      Chapter 32

      It wasn’t so much decided that Willadee would take over…

      Chapter 33

      They’d never had a fight before. They’d never even had…

      Chapter 34

      “How long are you intending for this revival to run?”…

      Chapter 35

      At dawn, when Willadee dragged herself up the stairs and…

      Chapter 36

      February rolled around, and God still hadn’t shown Samuel what…

      Chapter 37

      Willadee had started supper before she left to get Blade,…

      Chapter 38

      Swan was in a dark place. A deeply dark place,…

      Chapter 39

      Out in the yard, Samuel was still waving his arms…

      Chapter 40

      Calla grieved.

      Chapter 41

      Nobody believed Swan about the mice. They didn’t believe that…

      Behind the Scenes

      ‘They’re My Family After All’

      ‘Love or Loathe’

      What to Read Next

      Acknowledgments

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