I'll be home late tonight
By: Susan Thames.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Villard
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Women -- Southern States -- Fiction.; Automobile travel -- Fiction.; Women travelers -- Fiction.; Southern States -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: I will be home late tonight
Description: Escaping a cheating husband and a mother so crazy she believes she can fly, June uproots her daughter, Lily, from her West Virginia home, only to fall prey to a world as dangerous and absurd as the one they left behind. Driving a jalopy, surviving on dwindling cash with nowhere and no one to turn to, Lily and June confront a South replete with racism, crude sexuality, and a dim view of women traveling alone together.

Through Lily's poignant, precocious, and often comic observations, we begin to unravel the delicate tangling of mother-daughter emotions, of two hearts in unison headed ultimately for separate destinations.