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Gathering Home

de Vicki Covington

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Covington's first novel is a quietly compelling coming-of-age story that takes on politics and religion, the Old South and the New South, families, love, and being able to come home again. Whitney Gaines has always known she was adopted. It's never been a problem--she loves her parents, Mary Ellen and Cal, a liberal minister, and enjoys her life in Birmingham, Alabama. But the year Whitney turns eighteen, Cal decides to run for Congress and the entire Gaines family is thrust into the spotlight. Whitney resolves to look for her birth parents, a decision her liberal-minded adoptive parents support. Although her birth mother doesn't answer her letters, Whitney finds her father, Sam Kirby, a gay cartoonist living in New York, wondering about the child he knows is out there, somewhere. Whitney's letters reawaken Sam's ambivalence about his southern roots. At the same time, a romance blossoms between Whitney and her father's campaign manager, and Whitney begins writing to Sam's mother, who rejoices in the news that she is, against all odds, a grandmother. The relationships Whitney develops with her newfound natural relatives, particularly with her grandmother, are the centerpiece of this critically acclaimed novel.… (més)
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An enjoyable book for several reasons. First, it is set in my hometown of Birmingham, AL and it's always a neat thing to read a book set in a location with which you are intimately familiar. Particularly if, as is true in this case, the author uses the location well and accurately.

But the best part of Gathering Home for me was the central character, Whitney. A teenager whose adoptive father is a minister running for Congress, we get tantalizing glimpses into her thoughts and character without ever seeing it clearly. A parallel, in a way, to the type of person she is -- a "good" girl who does what is expected and gives all that is needed while holding back her core, even from the adoptive parents she loves dearly.

My next favorite character was Eva, Whitney's birth grandmother. I have met Eva personally in dozens of incarnations in my growing-up years -- a Southern lady with knee callouses from gardening, with a pitcher of sweet tea always on call, involved with her neighbor and her church, loving her grown son but not interfering in his life.

A very engaging book and one I hope will find more appreciative readers. ( )
  wareagle78 | Mar 20, 2014 |
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Covington's first novel is a quietly compelling coming-of-age story that takes on politics and religion, the Old South and the New South, families, love, and being able to come home again. Whitney Gaines has always known she was adopted. It's never been a problem--she loves her parents, Mary Ellen and Cal, a liberal minister, and enjoys her life in Birmingham, Alabama. But the year Whitney turns eighteen, Cal decides to run for Congress and the entire Gaines family is thrust into the spotlight. Whitney resolves to look for her birth parents, a decision her liberal-minded adoptive parents support. Although her birth mother doesn't answer her letters, Whitney finds her father, Sam Kirby, a gay cartoonist living in New York, wondering about the child he knows is out there, somewhere. Whitney's letters reawaken Sam's ambivalence about his southern roots. At the same time, a romance blossoms between Whitney and her father's campaign manager, and Whitney begins writing to Sam's mother, who rejoices in the news that she is, against all odds, a grandmother. The relationships Whitney develops with her newfound natural relatives, particularly with her grandmother, are the centerpiece of this critically acclaimed novel.

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