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In a world beset by anger and fear, what does it mean to protect one’s home and family?
Olive and Gabe — her older brother’s best friend — are deeply in love. They want nothing more than to make a home and family together, especially after the overdose death of Olive’s brother, Chris. It won’t be easy. Gabe works three jobs, and Olive still needs to finish high school, but their future together feels certain and right.
But when Samir Paudel moves into the house across the street, Olive's and Gabe’s lives are disrupted. The Paudel house is overfull with family and friends, and they play loud music at all hours. Yet Olive is drawn to them, particularly to Samir’s little nephew, Bhim, and his grandfather, Hajurba.
Yet Samir’s very presence seems to awaken in Gabe an intense anger — toward immigrants he believes are taking resources from White Americans — resources that would have saved Chris and his own father, who has lost his job and is now struggling with ill health and alcoholism.
When Olive realizes that Gabe and his family are the source of escalating aggressions toward the Paudels, she no longer recognizes the loyal, loving boy she fell in love with.
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“Go Home is one of the bravest books I've read. Co-authors Lochan Sharma and Terry Farish entangle their characters in misconceptions of immigration and then ask those characters to find their way out. Readers in turn will grapple with their own stereotypes and arrive in a complex place that is deeply human. Go Home is a book for this exact moment.” — Kirsten Cappy, I'm Your Neighbor Books, facilitators of cross-cultural conversations through children's and YA literature
“Go Home gives humanity to all of those involved in the protracted debate over immigration.” — Lyn Miller-Lachmann, author of Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning YA novel 'Torch'
“Beautiful and powerful! Highly recommended. This is the only Nepali co-authored young adult novel I've ever found.” — Margarita Engle, Newbery Honor-winning author and former national Young People's Poet Laureate
“The interplay between [Olive and Samir] is quietly absorbing ... Meaty and complex.” — Kirkus Reviews
“[Go Home] shows how teenage characters are grappling with some of the same questions igniting the political debate around immigration.” — Boston Globe
“Farish and Sharma bring important current social issues to light in Go Home, which is exciting, engaging and well worth the read.” — CM: Canadian Review of Materials