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In this stunningly assured debut work of fiction, Roshi Fernando weaves together the lives of an extended Sri Lankan family. At Victor and Nandini's home in southeast London, the New Year's Eve celebration is under way. Everyone is gathered around--clinking glasses of arrack and whisky, eating freshly fried poppadoms, listening to baila music--waiting to ring in 1983. Upstairs, The Godfather is playing on repeat for a bedroom filled with teenagers drunk on pilfered wine. And in the middle of it all is sixteen-year-old Preethi, tipsy on youth and friendship and covert cigarettes, desperate to belong. But what does that mean, to belong? As Preethi moves through her life--befriending the local outcast, revealing her brother's deepest secret, struggling with her own unhappiness and through a souring marriage--this desire for acceptance remains the one constant, both for her and for everyone she knows. Homesick moves back and forth in time, between...Pages of Homesick :