Five inter­lock­ing lives. One beloved sto­ry. A daz­zling adven­ture across cen­turies and con­ti­nents in search of the things that hold us togeth­er.

​“A joy — at once a grip­ping mys­tery that con­fi­dent­ly spans cen­turies, and a haunt­ing­ly beau­ti­ful explo­ration of what makes us human…It kept me up all night!” —Made­line Miller, #1 New York Times best­selling author of Circe and Song of Achilles

It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincin­nati. She’s nine­teen, blast­ing her Walk­man, and hid­ing from the fact that her beloved uncle, the only per­son who under­stood her, is dead. But she has work to do: he left her a half-fin­ished game to com­plete — one last col­lab­o­ra­tion to find her way out of lone­li­ness.

Lit­tle does she know, what Becks is mak­ing will echo far into the future and shape the lives of a sci­en­tist, a sen­tient automa­ton, and a flinty sea cap­tain in ways she can­not imag­ine. All are bound togeth­er by their search for con­nec­tion — and by a futur­is­tic trav­el­er on a mys­te­ri­ous mis­sion through space.

A nov­el about our deep inter­con­nect­ed­ness, Home­bound is a clear-eyed, hope­ful adven­ture into humanity’s future and capac­i­ty for love.