Go Home
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    [title] => Go Home
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            [4] => United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander
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    [synopsis] => In a small New Hampshire town, two teenagers from vastly different backgrounds find their future dreams challenged by family trauma and racism. 
	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.

	Key Text Features

	author's note

	alternating narratives/points of view

	chapters 
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	After she cried out, things happened so fast. Maybe Samir turned. Or maybe Gabe showed up beside him.

	That's when she heard Gabe yelling at the kid. "You got no right to be in this place. This is our beach. This is my friend's beach. Get the fuck out of my sight." The boy looked confused and didn't move. He only had the river behind him and Gabe in front of him. 

	Gabe shoved the boy's chest. "Are you deaf? Fucking get away from here! Go home." 

	The boy nearly fell back, and that made him flail toward the surf just before he caught his balance. Then he stumbled around Gabe. And in the stumbling, he shoved Gabe's shoulder. The move had been so quick that Olive couldn't tell if he only reached out to keep from falling into the water, or if it was a smooth up-yours right back. 

	On the beach he fled fast as a wild horse. He leapt over trees downed by the tide and rising high water. 

	But almost before Gabe turned from his rage, the kid was part of the gray trees in the distance. 
•	This novel is a true collaboration between Terry Farish and Lochan Sharma, told in the alternating narratives of Olive and Samir. 

•	A timely, provocative, and nuanced story about immigration, prejudice, torn loyalties and belonging. 

•	The title carries different meaning for each character. For Samir, home is wherever his family can be together. Olive's mother may be forced to sell their house, even though it is full of memories of her brother. And Gabe will protect his family and home at any cost. His dirt bike bears the slogan "America is full. Go home." 

•	Between 1988 and 1995 approximately 130,000 Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were exiled from their homes and farms. Many were trucked across the border to refugee camps in Nepal. The UNHCR has been resettling this Bhutanese community in eight cooperating countries. About 85,000 Nepali-speaking Bhutanese have resettled in the US.
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    [publisher] => Groundwood Books Ltd
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