“This is the kind of book you can’t wait to get home and read every night—to meet up with characters you genuinely like in a feels-so-real place you want to be. Almost Home is wholeheartedly engaging and uplifting, sweet and sentimental, but also smart, witty, and brilliantly down-to-earth. Finishing this book is like hugging a good friend goodbye—you don’t want to let her go.”
Sara Peterson, editor in chief, HGTV Magazine
“A story of kindness, friendship, and healing, Almost Home shines. At an Alabama boardinghouse in the 1940s, characters going through troubled times find hope and help through each other.”
Nancy Dorman-Hickson, coauthor of the award-winning Diplomacy and Diamonds and a former editor for Progressive Farmer and Southern Living magazines
“Valerie Fraser Luesse’s Almost Home beautifully depicts that uncertain time in post–World War II America when people from all walks of life were trying to find their way in a world where nothing was the same. Each character contends with their own struggle but learns that when love, compassion, and support are offered, even strangers can turn into family.”
Stephanie Patton, publisher/editor, The Leland Progress
“A ragtag group of strangers finds commonality and strength under one roof (literally) in Valerie Fraser Luesse’s witty, wise, and moving second novel. Almost Home abundantly reveals how friendship and faith endure in spite of—and sometimes because of—trying times, and how the things that tear us apart can also bring us together.”