Speak to Me of Home Jeanine Cummins (2026)

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of American Dirt comes a heartfelt, multigenerational family story that asks what it means to call a place home. Rafaela remembers her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, moving their children Ruth and Benny to the American Midwest, and losing her sense of belonging in the world. When her memory begins to slip, she tells no one. Her daughter, living in New York with a family of her own, struggles with her complicated feelings about where she comes from, while those same feelings lead her twenty-two-year-old daughter Daisy to reconnect with their past. After briefly forgetting everything, Daisy hears the word critical in a hospital room in San Juan and suddenly remembers the car rushing towards her, the terrible storm and something else she cannot yet identify. Ruth and Rafaela must return to the city where it all began, gather by Daisys bedside and confront the twists of fate that have deepened the rift in their family and brought them to this moment.