{"id":32027,"date":"2025-05-28T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=32027"},"modified":"2025-05-28T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:07:02","slug":"not-quite-home-by-temple-lentz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=32027","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite Home by Temple Lentz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A sharply observed, emotionally resonant tale…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wealthy widow and a weary outreach worker build a partnership neither of them expected in Lentz’s compelling debut. Claire has money, connections, and a growing sense that writing checks isn\u2019t enough. Erica has experience, exhaustion, and a job hanging by a thread. When their worlds collide at a homeless encampment, they clash hard. But soon, confrontation turns to collaboration, and the two women launch a daring plan to house ten unhoused women in a community of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lentz\u2019s writing is sharp, brisk, and funny without undercutting the emotional weight. She writes with clarity and bite about structural inequity and the fraught nature of \u201chelping.\u201d Supporting characters, from a savvy single mom caught between systems, a streetwise woman with a knife and a code to a cop who walks the line between ally and enabler, add depth and complexity. But it\u2019s Claire and Erica who carry the novel\u2019s emotional weight, offering two radically different but equally compelling lenses on what it means to build something real, one imperfect step at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A piercing and hopeful novel about second chances, uneasy alliances, and the work of becoming useful again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sibylline Digital First<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date June 6, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASIN B0F395PGF1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $5.99 (USD) Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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