num_pages: 319
description: An International Latino Book Award winner.The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law Omar hes already deadan apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband Martin still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omars familyespecially his wife Eldato let him redeem himself.Isabel and Martin settle into married life in a Texas border town and Omar returns each year on the celebratory Day of the Dead. Every year Isabel listens but to the aggrieved Martin and Elda Omars spirit remains invisible. Through his visits Isabel gains insight into not just the truth about his disappearance and her husbands childhood but also the ways grief can eat away at love. When Martins teenage nephew crosses the Mexican border and takes refuge in Isabel and Martins home questions about past and future homes borders and belonging arise that may finally lead to forgivenessand alter all their lives forever.
language: English
title: Everyone Knows You Go Home
publisher: Little A