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Home Street Home The Virginia Beach Chronicles
Author: Georgia Saunders

Home Street Home is a work of literary fiction set in the homeless community of the Oceanfront in Virginia Beach. Based on hard facts, it is the reader's ticket for a virtual journey into a parallel universe that is increasingly easy for any of us to fall into these days. Home Street Home is the jeopardy story of Ella Migliore, a... more » gentle soul from a middle-class lifestyle, who experiences that fall. Thrown into the brutal world of homelessness, she bravely tries to make the best of a bad situation, downplaying the dangers until she learns firsthand just how vicious street life can be. Menaced by ex-cons at a free dining hall, drenched in Tidewater tornado-watch weather waiting to bed down on church steps, and terrified by lawless men in a homeless camp, she digs deep to find strength to carry on. Her terrors are compounded when Ella is physically attacked by much younger campers while onlookers refuse to get involved. Her fear of being beaten to death drives her into the arms of a predator who takes control of her camp and her life. When he asks the unthinkable she escapes, only to battle the worst threat of all ? the thirst for revenge that twists her soul as she plans violent reprisals against those who?ve bullied her. Will she lose the fight with spiritual darkness? Will she spiral down to become just another bitter and hardened outcast? Readers are also introduced to Ella's friend, Blondie, who has been on the street for over two years. She is ?one of the luckier ones,? having escaped the cruel lifestyle?s full impact thanks to a ?street knight? whom she saw as her rescuer, sent by what she calls her Protective Power. Deeply in love with the problematic Gabriel, a knight blighted by his hustler?s mentality, Blondie struggles between the resentment she retains toward those homeless who supported her rival throughout a romantic triangle, and her sacred promise three years earlier to become a worker among the homeless. The triangle was resolved more than a year before. But red flags are waving. Is Gabriel still involved with the other woman? Circumstances inform the reader that Gabriel may indeed be two-timing Blondie again with the hot party girl, Cutie Doll. The story-line action moves at a tense clip against a backdrop of group scenes at ?Jesus Meals?, the shelter, ?Clay House? and the Oceanfront library. Populated by a realistic mix of homeless types, these scenes paint a faithfully rendered portrait of a world the author knows well ? warts and all.

ISBN-13: 9781461089636
ISBN-10: 1461089638
Publication Date: 5/24/2011
Pages: 358
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Currently 2.3/5 Stars.

2.3 stars, based on 2 ratings

Publisher: CreateSpace
Book Type: Paperback
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