Speak to Me of Home
From the author of the runaway bestseller American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
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Pub Date 13 May 2025 | Archive Date 27 May 2025
Headline | Tinder Press
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Description
From the internationally bestselling author of American Dirt, comes a classic novel of a family in crisis
'A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest'
JOHN BOYNE, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies
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'Why hadn't she said to her daughter I love you beyond reason and none of this matters at all and every day that you breathe is a gift?'
Rafaela Acuña y Daubón remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth and Benny, to the American Midwest, and losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip.
Her daughter, in New York with a family of her own, wishes she could forget her muddy feelings about where she comes from - the same feelings which motivated her 22-year-old daughter Daisy to reconnect with their past.
Daisy, who has momentarily forgotten everything, hears the word critical in a hospital room in San Juan and remembers, all at once, the car that hurtled towards her, the terrible storm, and something else. What was it?
Now Ruth and Rafaela must return to the city where it all began, to gather by Daisy's bedside and confront the twists of fate that have caused a growing rift in their family and led them to this moment.
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⭐ Readers are loving Speak to Me of Home: ⭐
'Jeanine Cummins has once again proven herself to be a master storyteller... an essential read'
'Left me thinking about it for days after... Highly recommend!'
'Richly crafted, mesmerising and beautifully written'
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781472288806 |
PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
PAGES | 448 |
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Featured Reviews

I absolutely loved 'American Dirt' - it is probably the book I have recommended .ore than any other. Unsurprisingly, I therefore was so pleased to read 'Speak to Me of Home.
This inter-generational piece of literary 'tres leches' felt comforting, deep and satisfying.
Right from the opening pages, when Ruth gets that phonecall that all parents dread, to find out her daughter has been in an accident, I was hooked. Moving between time and place and character, secrets are revealed and the consequences of long ago choices come crashing down.
I highly recommend this.
Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.