Home at Last

Returning to the Ozarks after an unsuccessful attempt at finding fame and fortune in Kansas City to care for her ailing mother, Marigold McKenzie O'Malley owns up to her past mistakes and finds romance with a childhood friend who shows her the true meaning of home. Original.

Mari O'Malley is 30, broke, out of work, and still trying to achieve her dream life of becoming a prosperous resident of a big, bustling city. So when sisters Lil, featured in Sing Me Home (2004), and Alcea, from Follow Me Home (2004), insist that Mari take on the day-to-day postsurgical care of their mother, she reluctantly agrees to return home to the small town of Cordelia, Missouri, for the summer only to find herself embroiled in a tempestuous affair with a childhood friend while she considers a job offer from a prosperous former lover and worries about her nephew by marriage, Michael, now a troubled teen who has been sent to a psychologist-staffed summer camp to work out lingering issues from his wretched childhood with an abusive mother. Corgiat skillfully interweaves the lasting legacies of child abuse, alcoholism, and infidelity and adultery into this hard-hitting contemporary southern romance featuring a likable, if flawed, adult Dorothy trying to decide where she really belongs: Oz or Kansas. Lynne Welch
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