Searching for a Home

Father O'Malley pulled up a chair and sat close to Anna. As he pressed his lips together Anna's heart started to race. Something was wrong, very wrong.




The next few minutes would be with her for the rest of her life. As she heard Father O'Malley said, "There's been a plane crash." From that moment, Anna Abbot's life changed as she learned her parents were both died in the crash. In other parts of the state of State Carolina, Michael Bennett and Ragan Carter are given the same tragic news.




Susan Hudson Chellis has revisited, The Kitchen Table to bring you her coming-of-age novel, Searching for a Home. As sixteen-year-old Anna moves into her aunt's home who has an abusive husband. While Ragan searches for love only to find herself pregnant at nineteen and at the mercy of her selfish grandmother. Michael, the oldest of the three, decides to go to law school, while he is searching for information about his parents only to discover a life-altering secret about his father. As each character struggles to find a place to call home.