Home Bound

This moving book is both an act of defiance a way to construct a home outside of borders and a timely manifesto on the need for more equitable housing policy in America, weaving her scholarship in economic justice together with her first hand experience of the many places she's lived. Home Bound is not just a resonant personal history, but also a thoroughly researched investigation of home.Rajpreet Heir, The New York Times Book Review"" Readers of Home Bound will likely experience that pleasant rush of recognizing something personal in someone else's reality, of answering, yes, home feels like this to me, too."" Chicago Review of Books ""Bee's lyrical, emotive prose takes readers through her life with an intimacy that draws and keeps them close. . . . Home Bound will appeal to a variety of reader, challenging singular beliefs of what it means to be a daughter, sister, lover, wife, lawyer, and mother."" Library Journal, starred review In this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define home and belonging from her birth in Yaounde, Cameroon, to her adoption by her aunt and her aunt's white French husband, to experiencing housing insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the Us. After her parents' divorce, Vanessa.