Homecoming

Sarah Storm is a girl who is enrolled at Yale. She's a good student and has not been in any major trouble of any kind in the past.

But when her parents find out that she is a lesbian, everything hits the fan. Her parents refuse to pay for any more of her Yale education, so she has to leave the college. They also kick her out of the house, so she has to find some friends to stay with. They cut off her cell phone and even end up totally disowning her. Even when she's had time to start to rebuilt her life, they show the same vicious anti-lesbian feelings that they had when they originally kicked her out. To put the icing on the cake, her girlfriend ends up breaking up with her.

In other words, prejudice triumphs over family. Unfortunately, this is not that uncommon of an event at all, kicking out one's own children since they happen to be gay or lesbian.

All of this takes place basically in the first chapter. Sarah has to start rebuilding her life by getting a job, entering a smaller (and far less expensive) college (she wants to become a doctor), and she has a roommate that is into making films. Her name's Rory.

Rory is going to make a special film about a vote that is going to be held in the state on whether or not gays and lesbians should have the right to marry (again, an incredibly timely topic.)

What makes matters very complicated is that Sarah has fallen for Rory, but she believes Rory is absolutely straight (but not narrow). What she doesn't know is that Rory is starting to fall for her, and most of the book deals with the two coming to terms with their own feelings for each other, but afraid to come on to the other.

Basically, it's a very romantic story that tries to show that love does not belong to one person of each sex exclusively; that two people of the same sex can develop a love just as deep of two people of different sexes. A very good book.

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