Home - Hardcover

"Combines elements of Star Trek...with a fast moving plot." --School Library Journal

"Home is a powerful statement about discrimination and the nature of humanity in the portrait of a young woman's search for redemption." --The Transcript (Norman, Oklahoma)

Grade 7 Up. Maran Thopel, 17, lives on Terrat Du, a planet resembling Earth, and has always felt strangely alienated from her family and friends; she is the only person she has ever seen with violet eyes. She and her friends spot a meteorlike object that they soon discover has a space traveler aboard, a young man named Alik who is immediately attracted to Maran and who also has violet eyes. His planet, Arakka, was attacked years before by invaders bent on annihilating all of the residents. He was frozen in time and put on a space vehicle to land years later to try to reclaim what was violently taken from the Arakkans. Maran soon realizes that Terrat Du is actually Arakka, and that her people, the Frathi, are the ruthless invaders. She decides to help Alik and begins a dangerous journey of self-discovery, where she learns that she is Arakkan and destined to assume a role in a final resolution of her people's struggle with the Frathi. Parallel to this narrative is the love story between Alik and Maran and the ideological struggle between Alik's commitment to peaceful negotiation and Maran's born-again militancy. The author combines elements of Star Trek concepts with solid characters and a fast-moving plot. A multilayered science-fiction story rich in narrative description.?Jack Forman, Mesa College Library, San Diego
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