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When Trying to Return Home: Stories Friendship arrest and the threat ofA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming