Homecoming (novel) - Homecoming in The Tillerman Cycle

Homecoming in The Tillerman Cycle

This novel is the first in a seven-part series, known as the Tillerman Cycle. The novel introduces some of the main characters in the cycle, and refers to others, such as Bullet Tillerman and Francis Verricker. Apart from Dicey's Song, which describes events immediately following Homecoming, the Tillerman Cycle is not chronological. Each book in the series follows events in the lives of different characters introduced in Dicey's Song or Homecoming. Seventeen Against the Dealer takes up events in Dicey's life when she is 21. A Solitary Blue concerns events in the life of Jeff Greene, a character introduced in Dicey's Song and a central figure in Seventeen Against the Dealer. The Runner is about Samuel 'Bullet' Tillerman, the children's late uncle and Gram's son. Sons from Afar tells the story of James' and Sammy's search for the lost father, Francis Verricker. Come a Stranger describes events in the life of Mina, a character introduced in Dicey's Song.

Homecoming can be seen as the first in a two-part series, which forms the basis for the explorations of character that occur throughout the rest of the Tillerman Cycle.

Quotes

"It's still true" -James Tillerman James said this every morning when he woke up and their mother still hasn't found them or looked for them. That she was still missing. Dicey knew this was true but didn't want to upset Sammy so she kept lying and said, "Momma will be at Aunt Cilla's when we get there." But then as they got closer she realized that she was wrong and that she had to try and convince Sammy that they would be okay without her because they had Cousin Eunice, which they knew nothing about until they got to Bridgeport."