Home Again 2020

Home Again 2020 by Roberta M Roy, completes a trilogy that follows Two Close and the first of the trilogy, Jolt: a rural noir, which medaled in the 2011 Jenkins Living Now Awards in Inspirational Fiction.

Roberta Roy's historical novel, Home Again: a story of survival, follows the paths of the Matters family, Mary, Lou, and their sons, Jason and Marty into the year 2020.

In Jolt, terrorism and a nuclear meltdown, separate the Matters. In Two Close, Mary recuperates from radiation sickness and the boys seek to survive on their own. In Home Again, Lou struggles the effects of right-side brain injury that has caused left side blindness or hemianopsia. In the year 2020 the now reunited Matters family moves to renewed balance, but COVID-19 closes the society and the educational system. The boys and Mary, a speech language pathologist in the public schools, are caught in the crosshairs of distant learning while around them, political, societal, and climatic changes reach heightened levels of menace. Home Again 2020 is a story of a family's courage and determination in year unlike any previous.