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For other novels, see Homecoming (disambiguation) § Fiction.

1981 novel by Cynthia Voigt

Homecoming is a 1981 young adult novel by American children's author Cynthia Voigt.

It is the first of seven novels in the Tillerman Cycle. It was adapted into a television film.

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Plot introduction

Homecoming, set around the late 1970s, tells the story of four siblings aged between six and thirteen, whose mother abandons them one summer afternoon in their car next to a Connecticut shopping mall during an aborted road trip to a family member in Bridgeport.

Realizing that their mother is not coming back, and that they cannot go home (as their father walked out before the youngest child was born), the children travel together, mostly on foot, trying to reach Bridgeport. There, they hope to find their missing mother at the home of a relative they have never met.

The children find themselves on a journey that is emotional as well as literal; during their weeks o