Speak To Me Of Home: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins Middle School After Libby and Herbert Alligator’s

After Libby and Herbert Alligator’s mom lands her dream job as a pastry chef

who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English Dictionaries

and even love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals

and where she will come to question everything she values

a bipolar retired detective

Speak To Me Of Home: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins Middle School After Libby and Herbert Alligator’sOn her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acua y Daubn has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mothers isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaelas daughter, Ruth,