Dreaming Home

By Lucian Childs

A queer coming-of-age—and coming-to-terms—follows the after-effects of betrayal and poignantly explores the ways we search for home.

Dreaming Home chronicles the fragmenting of an American family. A sister’s casual act of betrayal awakens the father’s demons, ones spawned during his time in prisoner-of-war camps in Vietnam. The effects of the ensuing moment of violence against his son ripple out over the course of forty years, from Lubbock to San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale. Swept up in this arc, the members of this family and those they love tell their tales.