At first he worked in a poultry market, and after wringing the necks of chickens all day, he came home and drank until he slept. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every time my friends came home from a field trip, I felt so left out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I came home to seek ray heir, aware that in doing so I faced death. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night he had come home drunk and angry. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Stay at camp. Train. Do what you need to do. But you will come home for the next school year?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mark my words, when the major come home, that woman is gonna be in for a rude awakening. That’s all I’m saying. There’s gonna be a reckoning when the major comes back.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Lexie and Moody, meanwhile, came home to a message on the answering machine telling them the case was over. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as my dad came home from his newspaper shift, he asked if my mom had heard anything, but she told him no. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He’d come home to see if there was anything he could do to help. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother wrote letters pleading for them to come home, and they ignored her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, Cousin Eunice came home late from work carrying a bakery bag. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I’m hearing is that you came home and found your daughter with a boy her age. That’s all you know. Is she a pretty girl?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“What Mister Johnny gone do if he come home and the house is a mess?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her mom had shown up out of the blue and pulled Eleanor out of class, all "Get your things, you're coming home." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When Phoebe’s father came home, Phoebe showed him his note. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My forecast was that after nineteen years, many blows weathered, all his shipmates lost, himself unrecognized by anyone, he would come home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before I’m to go to Killaloe Laman Griffin comes home drunk and eats a great bag of fish and chips at the table. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When Mom comes home, she reaches over and turns off my speakers in the middle of “Happy Idiot” and I don’t even get a chance to tell her about them. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Charlie seemed suspicious when he came home and smelled the green peppers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I come home and I do my homework. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He started coming home late from games, walking the five miles instead of riding the bus. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Goblin would approach something he feared, Johnny rewarded him with a specked apple, but when he did fall off, he would come home smelling like a cider press. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Uncle D came home from Vietnam, he became like a ghost rattling his chain and moaning in the night. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

This really wasn’t what I wanted to come home to. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

So I thought I had everything all fixed until that day when I came home and found Ben bellowing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Dora’s girls comes home from a call on a patron too wealthy or too sick to visit the Bear Flag. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, when he comes home, it comes back with him. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had locked himself in the bathroom after that movie until Celia came home. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night when Dad came home, he and Mom got into a big fight. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nipper would be coming home soon, and who could say that they were not waiting for him? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

One day Father surprised them by coming home early for lunch. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Phil came home, Gay told him what she had learned about Mrs. Moss’s background. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He works fourteen- hour shifts in the neighborhood plant's friction stoves and always comes home rubbing his eyes from the smoke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“There’s coffee left from this morning, Johnny. It’s nice and hot and we’ve got milk tonight. I was waiting until you came home so that we could eat together.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benny’s asthma has gotten a little better but Leroy came home last night smelling like Old Crow again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, coming home late one night, he lost control of his car, and that was that. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I turned into York Road, the main street of Umtata, I felt the rush of familiarity and fond memories one gets from coming home after a long exile. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She coming home tonight from Natchez, and I hope she call. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I came home and bought you all kinds of clothes and toys, because I loved spoiling my baby niece. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered what Abuelita had revealed to us and I knew Papá had not come home to be reunited with us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s the middle of the day. What if he comes home and walks in on you?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’d go to school, come home, and watch TV with Mom. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

This is the way of Nicholtown evenings, Daddy coming home, me jumping into his arms, the others circling around him all of us grinning all of us talking all of us loving him up. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

That was the way I passed the first year in Georgia: waiting all day for Lynn to come home and then playing with Lynn until bedtime. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe other guys would watch TV all night, but TV was just a bunch of noise, and when Sean came home, if he ever came home, he would tell Finn to turn it off. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was just tucking her in long after midnight when Eliza came home. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember soldiers coming home and then there wasn’t no more talk about the World War. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maniac was still there when Mr. Beale came home from his Saturday shift at the tire factory. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came home to a whipping from her mother and a new horse from her beaming father. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Father comes home, I stay up till all hours!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manipulating the ice shards felt like coming home. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She came home on the evening of that last day with a bouquet of roses, and for a moment I thought maybe Nathan had brought her flowers to celebrate her final day of work. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Pa had never before gone out to get a deer and come home without one. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day in 1973, Jerome came home from work with news. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they would come home in groups, talking quietly beneath the naked maples, the striped blankets they had used to sit on now wrapped around their shoulders. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, Papa came home and hung a picture on the wall. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That night when Papa came home from doing his man’s business about the farm, Mama took him to her room and closed the door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She said it’s not open for debate. No more speeches, she said, no more excuses. Just come home.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dad has come home from the lab for dinner, but he doesn't smile about anything. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit down here, and tell us all about your voyage—everything—just as David used to when he came home.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came home each evening, after my hours at the library, and spent a few minutes on the piano bench with Mrs. Croft. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On my eleventh birthday, when we came home from school, I was surprised to see saucepans full of food simmering on the stove. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even when no one is home, the water heater is on, so that when they come home after work, they don’t have to wait for the water to heat up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In her diary on June 28, next to where she had already written “G. holidays”—George was scheduled to come home from school—she wrote, “Death.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came home, all the food was gone. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Agha, did you hear what Mullah Nasrud- din did when his daughter came home and complained that her husband had beaten her?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After school, Cap had to come home to my house, where Sophie was there to demonstrate the true meaning of nasty. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She thought she’d come home from school that first day knowing how to read and write. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When old Grandma and Auntie came home that night from the bingo game at the church, Tayo and Rocky were already in bed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand it, but it was like I was real mad at them, but also real glad they came home at the same time. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I figured she probably just came home from a date. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It would be pretty hard to conceal his excursion into the woods if he came home looking like a pincushion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Francis, who went to see him Wednesday and Thursday, was told that Charles was improving, and that if everything went well he could come home over the weekend. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Four days later, when Dad still hadn’t come home, Mom sent me to go find him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You were coming home through my land from batting practice? Then the first thing I am wondering is why you don’t have a bat.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’d let him come home long enough to get his stuff? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One day toward the end of his senior year, my dad came home from final exams and his father announced that he had found him a bride. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He would say that Jan had come home with them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

One evening he had come home later than usual. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Jennifer comes home and asks me to put my plate in the dishwasher and clean up the mess I made in the microwave. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“But never anything, like, concrete enough to find her before she comes home.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Don would come home and sweep into the den, expecting that everything would stop because of him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It almost always happens when they come home from work. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt that in the early morning she had come home to get me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fall in and out of sleep but am wide-awake when my dad comes home in the early morning hours. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Every evening we eagerly waited for her to come home from work. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

During this warfare Arthur became genuinely fond of Lancelot, and, by the time they came home, he no longer believed in Merlyn’s prophecy at all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, my father did find some of the comfort that he wanted: The day after the Supper of the Flying Lima Beans, he came home with a brand-new Ford Mustang convertible. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He said he’d just got a letter begging him to come home, for Frank was very ill. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The envelope was still sealed, but crushed like Big Ma had been holding on to it for hours, waiting for us to come home. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, Daddy came home from what he called a short trip, down to Texas and back. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I came home that night feeling more exhilarated than I’d felt—maybe, ever. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Around that same time, Papa came home with a dog. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had every intention of coming home soon. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I simply had to come home by myself, leaving Neil and Buzz to die on the surface of the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it made me glad to have him come home, and I didn’t want him to get into a big fight with Father and spoil it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called to report that the children had not come home. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Vince telephoned. He’s asked me if you could go with him to church tomorrow, then out for a bite. I said yes, provided the two of you come home to have dinner with us.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does not think it would be a good idea for Vincent to come home. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And I will take the loaf and put it in my knapsack and come home.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wanted him to come home and pull her forcefully to him in the way he had not done in a long time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before that an older woman, Mrs. Linden, greeted him when he came home each afternoon, sipping coffee from a thermos and working on crossword puzzles while Eliot played on his own. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were so many fleeing, tired, homeless people that Ugwu was not surprised the afternoon Olanna came home and said that Akwakuma Primary School would be turned into a refugee camp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She probably would have talked forever if Mr. Dorn hadn’t come home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t get it at home. I remember in third grade, coming home with straight A’s on my report card, and my parents, being fundamentalist Christians, said, ‘Be careful. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But Anatole came home excited about the general strike and spoke of it quietly through dinner, careful as always to use code words and false names. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She misses him suddenly, remembering afternoons years ago when they’d first moved to this town, when he would surprise her and come home from the university in the middle of the day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mate had not been separated from her baby overnight since we’d come home from prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom comes home as I’m blaring my way through “Dead Fox.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since Thanksgiving, Lexie had checked the mail first thing when she came home, and at last, in mid-December, a fat envelope bearing the Yale logo in the corner finally landed in their mailbox. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, “He is on the road to recovery. Could be he will come home as soon as tomorrow.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We were sitting at the dinner table, waiting for my dad to come home with my brother from the airport. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He used to sit in the front window every day with a stick in his mouth and wait for me to come home from school to play fetch.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

What’s the big deal if I don’t come home right this minute? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Plus, I wanted to make sure I was ready to really help Momly when she came home, even though Uncle Tony kept saying he had it covered. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In a little while, Dad comes home early and flops down next to us. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This time, before your mind can calculate the answer it will wander away down the street with the child, dancing to the African music that has gone away and come home changed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she came home from work that night she had a new slacks-and-shirt outfit for me, but it was for the hospital visit. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, our sweet baby, we are coming home to you. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you come home right after you’re done,” Grandma said, pulling up in front of the blocky cement lifeguard shack and changing rooms that everybody called the bathhouse. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“When Jeremiah come home, he would start mocking Jeremiah. Mandela say, ‘As for me, I will play basketball.’” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He stared up at me for a moment, then said, “I want him to come home.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s Old Wilkins! He went out to get some sugar and never came home.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“If she went out in a yellow bug, she can come home in a yellow bug.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I quickly became the best saber fencer on the Columbia High School team, and I watched my ranking rise at the local competitions, often coming home with medals in my hand. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The sun would glance off the white snow, the birds would fly through the trees, and I would come home with a fresh meal from the valley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The accumulated inactivity of the summer weeks since finals also hurried her along; since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The morning after I came home, my mom washed my hair. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Nelson came home once and asked me what the words meant, assuming they were liturgical. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But night after night they came home with an empty brown sack. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, I couldn’t wait for her to come home from school so she could play with me before starting her homework. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

You must come home and see them if you can. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“When are you coming home?” she begged her mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to come home after school every day, and we were going to spend more Family Time together, but somehow that didn’t seem like a punishment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

An hour later, your dad came home with your sister to find you alone, crying over the kitten, whose belly had swollen to the size of a kickball. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“They always come home,” Mama said as she shampooed my hair for the fourth time. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Mother standing by the back door, her eyes sweeping the dark ridge, when my father came home to tell her they hadn’t found me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Really? Did she ask for me to come home?” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Will things be awkward when I come home for holidays? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Wait till Daddy comes home. Don’t leave me here alone.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Yes, he will call you when we come home. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

So when they came home with Chinese food, June was still here. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But the days passed and he didn’t come home, and soon she changed her story. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came home from the hospital a few days later, finally and irrevocably robbed of his ambitions. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I came home and gave the patch to my dad. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I would come home from elementary and middle school in tears every day because my classmates or even strangers would harass me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the people who lived below came home, they got the doctor.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to like your teacher,” she told me one day after I came home spewing complaints. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was only when our flight back was supposed to land that I realized Abby really wasn’t coming home. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, Miles. Do you want to come home?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I guess I saw him as an ex-Marine who became a mailman after he came home from Vietnam. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Late in February, my dad came home from work one night and said, “It’s over.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I lay awake in bed that night waiting for Harry to come home. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in a long time, I didn’t pray for Papá to come home. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After a week of harvesting carrots in early December, Lupita came home one afternoon and found a letter from her mother. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“This is my five weeks and I shall live them to the end as my whims dictate. I may come home, not by Buffalo, but by Timbuctoo! Who knows?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she said, “I’ll ask my parents if you can come home with me one weekend. That would be fun. They’ve been dying to meet you. Score! “Have you told them about me?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cheddar waits on the ledge of the front window for me to come home from the salon in the afternoon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When my mother came home that night, I told her what had happened. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When one of the fishermen, let’s say Tata Boanda, has good luck on the river and comes home with his boat loaded with fish, what does he do?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women were coming home from work in the early twilight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never came home with the prize money and his instruments, and no one in the family had seen him since. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would come home, have a quick supper, and head out with Trampita and me to our three acres, where we worked until dusk. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He come home to find Shiloh there, he just stands off to one side, listening to what Doc Murphy said about him; he don’t get close enough for Shiloh to take a lick. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I am supposed to be sleeping, my eyes are still open when Apa comes home from his night job cleaning the lawyers’ offices. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He’s lucky to come home to a friend like you. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When they came home, everybody was having a conniption about a big giant fight in the village over who got whose share of their horrid meat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife, Stephanie, tells a funny story about the first time she came home with me for Christmas and met my family. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So by the time Tom came home, I was spoiling for a fight. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just nice to come home after being around kids all day and have amenities like that,” she said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When his tour was up, Tag came home to go into the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And once in middle school, when Toby’s dad came home from the Deuce smelling like cheap whiskey. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d come home from jail at 11 P.M. in a taxi and the driver refused to take a cent from him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father wore it that weekend, and then some days I’d come home from school to see it on my mother or on Nation. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Let me get some warm food in you before you go on your way. Your ma’s probably worn through the window glass watching for you to come home.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I came home in the evening, he was gone. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the night walking through Central Park, not coming home until dawn. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Abel hadn’t come home by the time we’d gone to bed, and I’d fallen asleep in my mother’s room with her and Andrew, who was still a baby. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Salvador, come home now! Captain Ortega sent Paco to the hotel to get Mamá!” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

At about three o’clock in the morning the cows came home by themselves, but I didn’t know that. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Lelia came home from work and said she was burning out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother comes home from the hospital with me, my older brother takes one look inside the pink blanket, says, Take her back. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I came home from school to find our queen-size bed had been replaced with two twin beds. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung came home before dawn, gasping and too broken for food until he had slept. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

One night she came home with word of the boy’s father; it had been read to her from the court news. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prudence was in a lather when she came home. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to get better and come home. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They caught him by himself, coming home from his violin lesson. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We come home from school to find him locked in his bedroom, running lines with no one. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. DiAngelo returned a couple days later, but she came home alone and she didn’t seem happier. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We saw each other once more, when he came home for holiday. I went to see him at Nampally Railway Station just when he was leaving to go back to school.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I am very upset, you have no idea of how we both feel today, after such a terrible experience, coming home and finding you gone like that. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Ears straining, even in sleep, for the sound of footsteps on the stairs, not even footsteps, just the creak of the stairs, and she was awake, because it meant Miss Susan was coming home. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never came home, but we appreciated Mr. Ray’s positivity. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He played that trump after all. And so he came home and found ” “Wait,” Quentin said. “ what he must have wanted to find or anyway what he was going to find ” “Wait, I tell you!” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fact: You decided to stay at Saint Augustine’s instead of coming home. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then one warm day in late April, Dill came home from school to find an acceptance letter from MTSU. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We slathered pink frosting all over them and I ate so many that I was stuffed by the time Mom came home from errands and Dad came home from work and it was dinnertime. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had to wait until she went home to tell my father about Phoebe’s mother, and when I did tell him, all he said was, “So Mrs. Winterbottom is coming home. That’s good.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“He knows. Mister Johnny came home and found me.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One day I came home from school to find Quisqueya sitting next to my mom on our couch with her legs crossed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was weird to come home and see her mom, just standing in the kitchen, like . . . like normal. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He bent and wrote: She wants to come home. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Four years my daughter goes off to college and what does she come home with?” she asks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She knew how important it was for me to have Judy come home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about May Castellan, alone in her kitchen, baking cookies and making sandwiches for a son who would never come home. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Will comes home forty-five minutes late, carrying a wilted white carnation. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Just like you suggested. I told him ... I was sorry. I’d come home for the school year if he still wanted me. He wrote back immediately. We decided . . . we’d give it another try.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are we going, after Dad comes home from his appointment?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They tease Sonia, telling Ben about the year she had refused her gifts after taking a Hinduism class in college, coming home and protesting that they weren’t Christian. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When can you come home?” she asks after we’ve dispensed with the small talk. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mama had stayed up until Master came home and Ugwu was in the kitchen, half asleep, waiting to lock up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

What if Miss Leefolt come home and I’m setting up on this toilet? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For instance, Mom was ninety-nine percent serious about divorcing Dad if he didn’t come home from jail and get his act together. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We were coming home from a field trip to the museum,” I went on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had come home from the war and seen in his own eyes the disturbed empty reaches he’d seen in the eyes of other soldiers he’d known. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“So the baby was breathing funny when Branwell came home from school.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad came home, he silently got his stepladder out and cut two feet off the top. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. She’s coming home. I want you to take care of her.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Lee,” Adam called, “tell Aron I want him. He has come home, hasn’t he?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had already shifted from pitch to a lightening gray when he finally came home. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She came home in the winter of 1977, a few weeks before her twenty-fifth birthday. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad comes home, the microwave heats his supper. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Back when Pa came home with his homestead papers, saying we’d be moving to Nebraska come spring, Ma’d let her anger out in short hot bursts only Pa could hear. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

His dad would come home one afternoon after a really long, long haul gig, and he’d wonder what all the hubbub was about. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She tried to believe that William still loved her, and that in time he would come home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He understood why his mother never came home. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She tells Aunt Louise, “I wish I could be there” and “...coming home for good.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Pa might hunt alone all day in the bitter cold, in the Big Woods covered with snow, and come home at night with nothing for Ma and Mary and Laura to eat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll come and play with her on weekends till she can come home with us,” Dad promised. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to come home,” León said patiently, he understood his brother’s mood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he did come home from Tanzania Bar, it was with a gun. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every evening when I come home from work, I take a rag and wipe all the loose grass and dirt from the riding mower, and then I cover it with a big tarp. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been “asleep” the day before when Maya came home from school. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure? If she doesn’t come home with me now, she never will.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The five-and-dime was my very favorite store because it had things we could afford to buy and we always came home with something new in our hands. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The apartment was on Beacon Hill, so she could walk to work She had signed the lease that night before coming home. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t remember coming home with this man, but things that had happened later were clearer now. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then we came home one evening and found the cats strung up by their tails from our front gate, gutted and skinned and bleeding out, their heads chopped off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And Kainene was not missing; she was just taking her time before she came home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom was not one of those fussy mothers who got upset when you came home dirty or played in the mud or fell and cut yourself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he has been longing for a tiny home—something smaller, of course, than Hill House; perhaps he will come home with you.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I already heard it several times coming home.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could arrange and clean without interruption until two o’clock, when Chicken and Pie came home. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A neighbor dropped me off after school to wait for Grandma to come home from work, so my birthday celebration could begin. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course you can see them—but you’ll have to come home with me.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nora comes home calm as if she had been at the seaside. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Except for once she came home from work and she looked scaredy. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It turns out they weren’t teaching today, only finishing up grade reports and doc- uments, which is why the Doctorita came home early. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came home, ate dinner, and disappeared into his room with a lit candle and books and magazines. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Besides the commuters coming home from work, the station was swarming with men and women who were leaving the city for the weekend, on their way to Grand Central Station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I come home that night, Mom shows me the full-page ad she took out in the Brooklyn Express'. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This is my card, with my direct phone number. I’ll leave it here on the mantelpiece. If Salim comes home or gets in touch, or if you have any further thoughts, call me.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later I was still on the couch when my mom and Faizah came home. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My friend Liliane and I were coming home from school, taking the long way, stretching the afternoon. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama says she’s doing good and has so much to do when she comes home, blah blah blah. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

When she’s really in for it she has to wait until her father comes home and whacks her with his belt, right on the bare bum. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Zach came home from school one day, and his father asked him if he had read about all the problems plaguing the Broadway production of Spider-Man. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

What do you do when your pigeon does not come home? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dad comes home from his job at Rank’s Flour Mills and tells Mam I’m going through a stage, growing pains. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We need to talk about how you need to come home after you have the baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then they were free to spend their time in Egypt, until almost 5:30, when Caroline and the Rosses came home. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined my mom coming home to an empty house. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Midway along to delivery, Bailey came home and brought me a spun-silver bracelet from South America, Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel, and a slew of new dirty jokes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t come home until supper time, and by then he was back in his bedroom. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“When he was trying all the time to persuade you to let her come home when Herbert threw her out?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids had just come home from school, the TV was on, a stereo was playing—there was noise throughout the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The water then came to a drop-off, where it waterfalled one story down to a rounded piece of tin that Jessie had found on the curb coming home from school one day. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Only that he loathes school and wishes to come home.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I told him how I had felt that afternoon when I had come home from the hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She didn’t come home for a late dinner. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I was not happy with this unpaid duty, either, especially when I had to watch Sam Houston and Lamar prance off to the gin and come home with money. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Off they went, Dede telling them her story of coming home and finding the house abandoned, the boys gone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran into Major one night as he was coming home from the gym. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way Toby told it, he was in Patty Simpson’s bed—itself inconceivable to Luke—with his pants half off when her father came home and Toby went for the window. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Doña Andrea gave me a cup of milk with coffee and a chunk of bread with butter, and then I had to watch my sisters and brothers until Mami came home. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next time I heard his voice was when I came home from school the next day. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I came home and spent another long night of wakefulness and the following day I went to sleep in the classroom. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I noticed it when I came home from school.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Where will we fly? When will we come home?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He disappeared and didn’t come home until late that night when we were way past the point of needing the milk or the bread. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison, coming home, would tell of the day and get listened to, and he would try to retell the drummer’s stories—some of them at least. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since we didn’t know when Mama would come home, we all started the jobs she usually did. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later that week, Henry came home covered in mud and oil but happy as hell. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tía drove to work already, but we can ride our bikes to El Caribe and borrow her car from the parking lot. We’ll put it back before she has to come home.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as Papi came home from his shift at the hospital, he showered, singing a favorite Island song that made the girls giggle as they slipped on their party dresses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It took me about fifteen minutes to write “I will not talk in class” fifty times, and so I often came home at four o’clock. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother Richard and I often spent whole days on the mountain, so it was likely no one would notice until sundown, when Richard came home for dinner and I didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When he and Dad came home, hours after sunset, they were nearly always cussing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Aisling couldn’t shake the feeling that her mother had merely gone out on an errand and would come home at any moment and wonder what the three of them were doing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mama came home she said that was the right thing to do. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when my father came home that night, he looked too sick to go anywhere. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to hurry,” Phoebe said, “before Prudence or my father comes home.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When Odysseus came home, disguised as a beggar, Iros thought the new guy was moving in on his territory. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A lot of the time I think about those four and a half minutes between when I came home and when Dad called. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She was going to ask you to come home so we could all be a family again. She was on her way to tell you that.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But we know we are lying coming home will be different now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

By the time he in third grade, though, he get to talking better than the President a the United States, coming home using words like conjugation and parliamentary. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then he was coming home; then he was in the far back courtyard, with the servants, breaking a rooster’s neck. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the day before she planned to take them all over to Millsburg Plaza for new clothes, his dad came home from Washington early. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was never going to ask Dad to come home. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She’d brought me a huge bag of “free samples,” the way she always did when I came home. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He could be an insurance salesman and still be the same type of guy. I can see him coming home from work, kicking a door down, and shouting, ‘Stand by for an insurance salesman!’ The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few days later she come home, say, “Mama? I just got fired.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When he came home from school, it was usually to an empty apartment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn't enough because he comes home today in a very bad mood. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She said nothing to her parents about any of this; she told them only, as Christmas approached, that she would not be coming home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing we could do about it except to pray every night that the war would end soon, and Father and Sam would come home again. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I couldn’t sleep at all—every sound was my parents coming home, or someone breaking in. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I came home from work on a Sunday afternoon in late May, I looked into the woods and saw Charlie sitting on his newly finished Amazing Octagonal Deck, binoculars in hand. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Was the bird from Mother? Is she coming home?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And that every single soldier, including the best pitcher in Fayette County, comes home safe and sound. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was sure I could convince them it was time for you to come home. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, so my father said I have to come home and watch my sisters.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They came home together in the evening, Zalmai’s head bouncing on Rasheed’s shoulder, both of them smelling of glue and leather. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She’ll want you to come home right now for a heart-to-heart. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When my mom came home that night from work I was alone and scared. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited anxiously that whole afternoon until Father came home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad comes home from looking for a job he holds Margaret and sings to her: In a shady nook one moonlit night A leprechaun I spied. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We’re leaving you your butternut tree. But this old maple is going to come home with us and keep us warm this winter.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

After the crash Father no longer came home for lunch. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I left food for him when I went down to the sea, and when I came home he had eaten it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Mom says you can bail out and come home and still have your trial later,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When Louis Borgenicht came home after first seeing that child’s apron, he danced a jig. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Kimberly, fluttery and ardent, would ask how his day was, scrambling to please, as though she could not quite believe that he had again come home to her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Boy, when you come home?" she said, sticking her head out of the kitchen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came home with gifts: jeans or a wallet for me, a new skirt for Bushra, Turkish delight and embroidered cloths. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred and twenty hours, and then you come home,” she said. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn't that late; Eleanor tried to act like there was nothing strange about her coming home in the dark. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We liked to go fishing, but we never came home with any fish. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And if you don’t come home, what will he think?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In her childhood her father had never misinterpreted her, nor bobbled once, except when she was eleven and came home to dinner from school one day and found that her blood had begun to flow. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes . . . she visits . . . the sea. Before coming home.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When Moody finally came home, at a little past six, she ran downstairs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it did this time either—at least not in any normal way. I think you were right. You did almost come home. Your fear almost sent you home.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes. When Atticus married her, and I’d come home from Nashville for Christmas and things like that, why I fell head over heels in love with her. I still am—didn’t you know that?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He paces the house through all hours of the night and comes home at lunchtime to get the mail. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Luckily, my father came home before I could pick up the book again, but he told me to stop “hanging on his shoulders like a monkey” because he wanted to watch the hockey game. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He assumed that he’d be coming home first, then biking over to Javier’s after checking in with his mom, so he wanted to have a fresh outfit change ready. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the prodigal son comes home in Luke 15:20, “His father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Once Lin Nai-Nai came home and told my mother that a wonderful thing was going to happen in China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drove me to school and back every day, and even after Gramps came home she helped us, picking up his new prescriptions and making sure we had food in the house. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One evening, when they were living in the new apartment, Danny came home loaded, in a rage. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remember too much about his father, only the way he had heard his father sing sometimes when he came home and sang to his mother. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had seen her coming home, surrounded by an escort of six or seven shouting Red Guards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first she came home sickly and pale, as if bringing that life into the world had taken a measure of her own. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Borgenicht came home at night to his children, he may have been tired and poor and overwhelmed, but he was alive. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When Apa finally does come home, he covers the entire coffee table with his newspaper. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But whatever he said, he came home with a pretty good shiner, because pretty Mr. Culross turned out to have hands even quicker than my father’s. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had sort of forgotten they were going, but when they came home, I remembered. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then Pa said in his plain, warm voice, “Darnell’s coming home.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt come home with Miss Hilly and they set at the dining room table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Wait for a man to come home and love you. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were jars of earthenware in rows holding an old wine, mellow, unmixed, and rare; cool stood the jars against the wall, kept for whatever day Odysseus, worn by hardships, might come home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aibileen is as exhausted as I am, surely more since she works all day and then comes home to the interviews at night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But instead of explaining himself, my father did the same thing he had always done when he’d come home from working out of town. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

So the next time I get paid, I come home from the market with an investment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Papa always liked a good party, but he said when he came home after the hospital he just wanted to have some peace and quiet. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Army and come home to make a modest living and in the process try to help his fellow Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Does he come home with blood on his hands?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I felt as if I had come home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m praying no one will come home and find me spying. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes home with something hidden inside his lunch box, a gift from Ramu. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A few months after her death I would come home from school and smell the fishy salty broth of those same noodles. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell Howard that Scrappy said how much he misses me and he can’t wait to come home and watch Wheel of Fortune with me again. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When Malia and Sasha came home from school later that day, Barack and I met them in the residence and hugged them tight, trying to mask the urgency of our need just to touch them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Sounder ain’t come home?” the boy said to his mother after he had talked about the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she takes the train to Manhattan every morning and comes home late in the evening. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would come home and say, “Well, I did my duty. May the best man win.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

So she told the boys and told them again: when you come home from school, go into the apartment, lock the door, and stay inside. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was last outside yesterday afternoon, when I was coming home from visiting Dad, an uneventful Labor Day. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She told me story after story of dogs that came home; even her old dog, Rex, had come home missing half an ear and three toenails. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I can hardly notice the delay. I gotta say, I wish you were coming home." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But each time Uncle came home without a job, Pa said, “You’ll have better luck tomorrow. As long as you’re looking.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“If things don’t work out, you can always come home,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was near the beginning of February and, poor me, I’d come home from another lonely day at school to roam around my empty house for a while, but I’d ended up in the garage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If he had gone to the sanctuary today, he would have come home to Frank here, and the surprises would still be in place from Byrd. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You can tell her yourself when she comes home. There are so many people looking for her, she’ll be found soon.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“If you come home like that, it’s almost like a disgrace,” Reggie’s mom says now. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That made the time pass quickly until my brothers came home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking forward to making you completely better when you come home,” said Arnold. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sima, the daughter of an exile, and the granddaughter of an exile, came home already knowing her fate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And second, Hassan began to come home in the evenings complaining of angels. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She and Imogen had often come home together with rackets and water bottles, talking about their tennis games, when they had probably never played tennis at all. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If my dad came home late he would never check on me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Thereafter when I come home again, I am to slay full hekatombs to the gods who own broad heaven, one by one. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rit grumbled about it, first to herself, and then to Ben when he came home from the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I thought about my mother coming home in the morning. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

No matter how many hours or even how many shifts, when I came home I left work behind. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn't your lucky old father in for a pleasant surprise when he comes home?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was so sick that Old Rit heard about it, and went to Edward Brodas and asked him to take Minty away from Cook’s, to let her come home where Rit could look after her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again Cole screamed, “Don’t! Don’t! I’m sorry I came home late. I’ll obey! Please, Dad, don’t! Life’s not a game! Please stop!” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon, and raining heavily, when I came home and found my clothes on the front lawn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She wanted more letters stacking up in Postal Box Number 898 that said, “Nothing is the same without you” and “Please come home soon.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sat up that night waiting for Papa to come home from work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me the poor wee dog was hit by a car and he crawled all the way from the middle of the street before he died.Wanted to come home, the poor wee creature. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He’ll realize he can stop sending me lectures by mail about coming home and putting my life right. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I promise, this is the last time I'll ask. Just come home for a few days." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Round with awe his eyes shone, like those of a little boy; he looks, she thought, as if he has been playing and now it’s time to give up and come home. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

When she used to come home from school she felt good and was ready to start working on the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the father comes home, and apparently he loves beggars and pilgrims, too, and they all sit down to dinner. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps my mother argued that my irregular attendance would be disruptive, I don’t know, but she came home with the books, and we began our kitchen-table school. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew exactly when he was coming home, so why was my heart beating so? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says that he has not given up hope, that no matter what the police say, he still clings to the idea that Megan will come home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, It’s Christmas Eve and Papa’s not coming home to stay. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit came home third, drenched to the bone, covered head to toe in mud, and miserable. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My youngest. Jan. These were his favorite. I used to have them waiting when he came home from school. You were his friend?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But Will came home early and found them, and once again he blazed at them, and once again they left. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the family had often gone together into the hills to pick raspberries, and they would come home with big jars stuffed full of the red fruit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Percy .. .” “Yeah. So they tell me there’s nothing I can do. I guess I’ll be coming home.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I see a father coming home early, surprising everyone with rock candy sticks from the market, telling heroic stories from the hospital every night before bed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, when the light was gray and uncertain, Sarah Ruth was sitting up in bed, coughing, and the father came home. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I had just come home and kicked off my grass-stained sneakers when this short guy in a suit and tie knocked on the door. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you don’t know anything about any of this, maybe we should wait for your mother to come home. We can come back.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then one afternoon in January Thomas Sutpen came home; someone looked up from where we were preparing the garden for another year’s food and saw him riding up the drive. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he fell asleep at the wheel and told us about it when he came home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

No one told me why Mama Lessie had gotten sick or if she would ever recover and come home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And even if she thinks there’s some reason she can’t come home, we can find her and prove to her that she can. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“She’s utterly and completely opposed to Opium and everything your father stands for. Do you think he’d let her come home? Or that El Patron would?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad came home from work that night with his hands bandaged, bloodied from removing the rock that trapped the men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Cant I come home in the middle of the afternoon without upsetting the whole house?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Roberto came home from work that evening, Papa and Mama were relieved to see him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of sending a note home, he came home with me! Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That night, when I came home, Shawn was gone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before we can get good into our conversation, E.J. comes home, smelling up the whole living room with his cologne. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Dad usually leaves all his cleaning for Saturdays because he hates the idea of coming home from work on weekdays to more work. On the weekends we cleaned and earned our TV marathons.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After Mom came home from England, a big box covered in British stamps arrived on our doorstep. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I envied Maxim, careless and at ease, and the little smile on his lips which meant he was happy to be coming home. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

An hour and a half later Father came home from work. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He came home in the morning, ate and showered, and then they got into bed together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stared at our unopened Christmas gifts, wondering if we should selfishly tear through the wrapping paper or wait for my parents to come home so we could open our presents together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Yar came home with some dried beans and corn and sorghum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Fleery,” Lina said when she got to work, “would you have time to come home with me later on today? Just for a minute? I found something I’d like to show you.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She gave up when he still hadn’t come home at midnight, but she lay awake listening for him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was coming home from Tunis in triumph. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“My husband is coming home,” said the giantess. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She lay on the old leather couch in the kitchen and waited for Mama to come home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, coming home, especially in winter, I used to pick up the pace, glancing quickly to the right, just to make sure. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom came home around four o’clock from her summer job, Dad came out of his lab in the basement, I helped in the kitchen and we had a proper sit-down meal. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Mami screamed one day when I came home after school later than usual. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Year after year my father did not come home or send for her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willie tried to enlist in the army and was turned down; whereupon he threw up his job with the milk company, came home, announced that he was a failure, and went to bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a baby, started staying out of school, started coming home late. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening after practice, Grace came home to Willow Ridge to find Bien and his older brother, Alex, in the parking lot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Bridge’s mother was on an Amtrak train, coming home from a performance in Boston with her string quartet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Enough to write to her this way and ask to come home. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now, Halmoni can only shake her head when Apa comes home late stinking like the insides of the bottles that get left on the street. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Abby doesn't have a car tonight, so she comes home with me after school on Friday and brings her overnight bag. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When I came home from the weekend and told my parents I wanted to permanently join the youth group, my dad said I wasn't allowed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Lexie, coming home the next afternoon in Pearl’s favorite green T-shirt, the one with John Lennon on the front. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Amil and I came home from school, there was a man squatting in our alley on the way to the back stairs that take us up to our little flat. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then around four, when Becca’s mom called her to come home, the other three of us went to my house to check on the eggs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was Todd, coming home from his rescue rounds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was anxious and slept badly, but when Mother came home the next morning, hair deranged and dark circles under her eyes, her lips were parted in a wide smile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I come home, Helena is on the sofa, reading the dental textbook, and Januka is standing in the living room, holding her purse and tapping her foot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’d educated himself in his spare time, had saved his money with the earnestness of a Horatio Alger, started his own newspaper, gone to war, come home, pressed on, moved forward. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m imagining Safer somewhere inside, having the realization that Mr. X has come home. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“My father. He came home to meet you.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The one where the hero comes home to find me gone. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean that she comes home, goes to her room to change clothes, wanders into the bathroom, picks through mail, and then finally arrives at the refrigerator. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Jordie had come home hungry and irritable, frustrated after another wasted day. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She could come home with stories of what had happened that day and not have a chorus of three naysayers to correct her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Someday I’ll come home, and when I do, I promise”—he put a hand to his hearts—“I’ll tell you all about the mysteries of Weep.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Uncle Tony said Momly can come home at noon!" she blurted, way too early, and way too close to my face. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Only Big Ma and sometimes Papa when he came home from work in time. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few times he did, he came home in a sour mood. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Conor let a few streets go by, then he asked, “When is she going to come home?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The next day when my mother and Mrs. Hull came home from shopping, my mother seemed more lighthearted than she’d been for ages. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drinks his pints at South’s pub but never comes home singing songs of Ireland’s long woeful history. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted it to be extra special for my brother and for me because he was coming home, and it was my birthday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m done with Dusty and the Coral Queen. I just want to come home and live a quiet, seminormal life.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

School officials said it was for their own protection, but it sounded like punishment and discrimination to me when Qareeb came home and told us what had happened to him. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I remembered all the times he didn’t come home until after dark, all the times I ate dinner alone. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t looked like that at all when he first came home again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not one of his friends brought home more than a couple of centavos a week to his family, but each and every boy came home to eat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Dev told her stories about his childhood, when he would come home from school and drink mango juice served to him on a tray, and then play cricket by a lake, dressed all in white. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Luke came home seven months later, he was not much bigger than one of my dolls. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She dressed “for work” in clothes that she changed out of the minute she came home, so that they wouldn’t get stained with oil, achiote, or tomato sauce. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Kasigi’s such a jerk. He spends the week partying at some fancy convention, and then comes home to pull the plug on anybody else having fun.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He stays with his dad until his mom comes home from work and then with his mom while his dad goes to work. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“They’re working him far too hard. His dinner’s going to be ruined if he doesn’t come home soon.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was true that my father had not come home to sleep for many days now and I could make as much noise as I wanted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late strollers were still out: a policeman, a night watchman, a rocket pilot, several lonely men coming home from some nocturnal rendezvous, four men and women issuing from a bar, laughing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All that did was tick him off! Wood came home with the blackest eye I’ve ever seen. And a busted lip. And he was limpin’.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday and the twins, Jaime and Nicolas, had come home from school for the weekend, so they too were at the table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We want you to come home,” they say simultaneously. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening after practice, Alex came home weary and set about making dinner. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Helena smiles, then smiles bigger, and when I come home from work the next evening, her brown head is next to Max’s dark one, poring over a dental textbook. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was evening, and people were coming home from work. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When my mom came home, the rent and all the bills were overdue, so we were evicted. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I could tell from the expression on her face when she came home after work that I hadn’t prepared her enough. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I tell her, “Mom, when I come home, I fly here.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or when she comes home from work and sees me rummaging through the cupboards: “Why don’t you just pour yourself a cup of milk?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Francie saw a girl who lived in a flat across the street come home from a dance with her feller. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never even heard those words until Dad comes home from the lab and starts making dinner on Wednesday. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother tells me all the time, Never, never leave that playground except to come home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I came home, she was still there, her work clothes stretched on the bed, rumpled and forgotten. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, after a day in the forest gathering firewood, Chou and I come home to find Kim in the corner of the hut watching the mother go through our things. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew nothing about it, for she had not known that he was dead until long afterward, when boys were coming home and she had begun searching for Frank’s face in the streets. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When she came home from school and on the weekends, he wanted her around. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He came home in such a drunken fury that Mom usually hid while we kids tried to calm him down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d come home and look at all my stuff and say: Thank you for not sticking me with them. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Ma once brought home a chick for Easter, and it grew and grew until she came home from work one night, opened the door, and saw eight kids chasing a rooster around the living room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Dad came home with two victrolas and two stacks of records. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he came home when his wife was doing one of those face masks,” I’d murmur back. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Months passed in this way, Mother leaving the house at all hours and coming home, trembling, relieved to her core that it was over. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She would hide in plain sight and come home just before Winter Conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It was strange for me not to find you when I came home in the afternoon.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Tell Virginia how much you want her to come home,” the Doctorita urges. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t she, wouldn’t she—and let him come home and be happy? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me behave myself and come home dancing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He has come home only once. Everybody on the street came out to greet him and the children were fighting to touch his uniform.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The truth is I have been unsettled since we came home, and nothing is right. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Not one mouth uttered a sound as the realization came home that their own country had deserted them, that Smyrna now had no government, that there was nothing between them and the advancing Turks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tom must have come home while I was up there, because they were together when I came downstairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later I came home to find my mother so upset she wouldn’t look at me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When it was time for her to come home, I watched for her again. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Dad came home early from work, since he’s leaving tomorrow before breakfast. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He tried to convince them that he wasn’t a defector, that he had merely been visiting family in China and was coming home to vote. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I came home from practice and the boys were on the landing, scared to death.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

What would he look like the next time she came home, she thought—and when would that be? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go far, and come home in an hour.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When Harry came home from work later that evening, Thula was waiting for him in the doorway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every day after school I’d go to the library, where Ms. Paul would watch me until Ma came home. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bread crumbs from the morning are always on the table when we come home from school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Prim, who came home from school in time to see the last two dresses, chatters on about them with my mother. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had not come home for the New Year’s Eve dinner, though we had waited until ten o’clock. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he got it, he didn’t know exactly when he’d be coming home. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Wish Father would come home so I can stop daydreaming that he will appear in my classroom in a white navy uniform and extend his hand toward me for all my classmates to see. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then, one day, he went out to work and never came home. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t worry when she comes home and finds Brian and the hornets on the deck, all of the hornets posing for me like some photo they saw in a magazine. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We had hardly undressed when the kid came home from school, and I heard him yell for Vivian. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marianne will fret when I don’t come home,” says a voice. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to win a contest and then I will be famous, and he will see my picture in the paper and he will have to come home.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

After training all day, I would come home and review sales for the day and respond to customer emails. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So he came home and took a job as a teacher. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“And if you’re not ordained, you can come home and it will be like you never left,” her mother said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

During the day, the bathroom was our playhouse, until the men came home from work and reclaimed it, filling the air with the humid scent of Palmolive soap. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My heart would immediately race the moment I came home and saw the red blinking light of my answering machine. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Do I have to work all day and then come home to a mad house.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I know, you're right. I picture a certain life—an observant wife, a Jewish home. Quiet, simple. Printing papers by day, coming home to a family at night. My dream hasn't changed." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come home. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was still dark when we walked to school in the morning, but it was lighter coming home, and not as cold. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1944 she came home to Virginia on the Greyhound bus to visit her mother, but was arrested on the return trip to Baltimore for refusing to move to the Colored section. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

With any luck, Ebright would be coming home by way of Berlin with both a national title and a third consecutive gold medal. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just before Quincy was supposed to come home, the doorbell rang. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I came home, Soraya was on the phone with her mother. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I say, “but I sure want to surprise Alice when she comes home. Let’s eat fast.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a second thought, I said what I honestly felt—that it was, as I saw it, a case of ‘ ‘the chickens coming home to roost. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My three brothers would be coming home, and I yearned for them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came home from school one day with my yearbook clutched in my arms. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Both spend their days on the porch until Mrs. Palmer comes home from making beds at the Hilton. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But then Prudence came home and opened her note.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She had rolled her eyes when she saw him come home with that canoe. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“My white dog would be standing at the door waiting for me whenever I came home,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to be quick about it so I can be gone before Officer Berdecki ends his shift and before Emilika comes home. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’d been drinking; he never came home from work sober, and the drinking always made his temper worse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When he had come home and found Nipper at the window as usual, he was both happy and not happy. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

On a good week, they come home with many bags of food and the chief rations it out to all the other villagers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we stood there on the corner of our old farm under the oak trees, wishing we never had to come home. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning Apa comes out of the bedroom for the first time since he came home yesterday morning. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Oftentimes, Granddaddy came home from work, put us grandchildren in the backseat of his car, and took us to pick wild strawberries and blackberries along the roadside. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I cried like a baby when the result was announced, and later, when my father came home, we embraced and wept and kissed, and our tears mingled on our cheeks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Though I came home bloody, I never told my mother who attacked me, and my father never knew of it at all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It made a convenient place for Sam to run away to, because it was close enough so that he could come home without any trouble after he’d stop running away. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sabatini: He kept his front going all day long, but once his mom came home he was a horse of a different color. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Abbot comes home at five and makes tea downstairs and even though I’m hungry I know he’ll grumble if I ask him for anything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Friday we stayed out late, and when I came home the house was dark. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

More likely she just wanted to make sure she and Robert Laurence came home together. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they came home from school, there was milk and cookies on the kitchen table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was waiting for you to go to the store. When you didn’t come home, I walked down myself, and I saw a girl in a car that looked just like you.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

JonPaul came home with me after school to hang out and watch movies. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They tell me that Laura’s dead. They let me out early. I’m coming home.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Gebu did not return to the shop that day; and when he came home at sunset he had no bundle with him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“We’ll get the word out, of course, but she can’t be compelled to come home; you shouldn’t necessarily expect her back under your roof in the near future.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She would have felt like Santa Claus when she came home. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I come home standing up straighter than I have since I was twelve, before my growth spurt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When Izzy finally came home—two weeks after her scheduled due date—this list would be one of the few things Mrs. Richardson would recall about her time in the hospital. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sharkskin zoot suit is coming home with me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder why exactly, since I hardly know them, but I promise to call them when I come home for winter break. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And isn't it wonderful he is here when he was gone so long and everybody thought he might never come home again? Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

One day she was coming home from a hard day’s work and had to ride the bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the summers he came home to take his father’s place in the fields, for cabin rent had to be paid with field work. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when you told me afterward that you shouldn’t have said anything, that you want to come home after you have the baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re always catching colds when you come home. You must be eating too much yin. Let me get you another quilt.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dear, Minerva explained everything to me in detail and with diagrams as we were coming home on the train. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He will look at your eye Friday morning, and you will probably be able to come home Friday afternoon. I will come to pick you up when I am through teaching.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If it had sold well he would come home in a moderately good temper and say nothing to Shasta, but if it had sold badly he would find fault with him and perhaps beat him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mam’s cry: “You spoiled him rotten, and now he’ll never be a man”—and Gram’s retort: “You keep pecking at him and soon he won’t come home at all.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The three of us found an easy place to park right beside the capitol building and we got out of the car and walked into that place like three people coming home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

My sons came home from that meeting even more silent, if possible, than they had been in the past. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom says you have to come home,” I said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By nightfall my sisters and parents came home and everything had gone crazy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet he comes home and everything ends up fine. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I am alone in Kelsea’s room when her father comes home. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I understood that he really might not be coming home. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When he came home those nights, he didn't have much to say, just sat at the dining-room table slowly going through the pages of his high school yearbook, looking lost. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He might well have guessed why his son was coming home at long last, and acted accordingly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dad comes home from work early and drops his briefcase beside the desk in his office. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The hero sets out with his friends and companions, faces dangers, comes home triumphant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When she was five, no more than five, Zeitoun came home from work for lunch one day and found Nademah playing on the floor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My only relief was when my mom came home. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What about when he comes home for the holidays? Christmas and spring break.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Clyde is coming home from the hospital today. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Despite Loma had begged to come home, I don’t doubt she was relieved not to be going. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Monroe must have just come home because his coat was still on. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fire Snake has already come home to its mother, Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the tragic day, I came home, said hi to Mom, glugged down some milk, and headed down to the basement to practice. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night Nenny and I can hear when Earl comes home from work. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it is, I have to wait till Dad comes home from work before I can find out about Shiloh. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babi came out of the bathroom, his hair—peppered white with flour when he’d come home—washed clean now and combed back. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

You sowed the seeds in me, Atticus, and now it’s coming home to you—” “Are you finished with what you have to say?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It was a drive-by. Bullet ricocheted. Benny was on the stoop, waiting for me to come home.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One night, he came home late and in a strange mood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was no other set of keys in the house to that door, so if they wanted to open it again, they’d have to wait until Mamá came home or jump out a window. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After school she tells me sit at the table and write my father a letter about Mam in the hospital and how we’re all at Aunt Aggie’s till Mam comes home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But early in the summer he came home with something on his mind. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he came home from the hospital, his stomach pumped, his liver monitored, she searched his face, his gestures, his words, for a sign, for proof that it had really almost happened. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

DAD: That first night you came home drunk, I cried all night. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Had he come home and flown off again? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Saturday night he got angry with Roberto and me because we came home from the movies past midnight. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Yoyo came home the next day with the success story of the assembly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No. Do you want to just wait here for Mom and Dad to come home? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle, a senior consultant surgeon in a huge London hospital, came home most weekends. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He mentioned that he came home on a submarine. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“He goes off every morning in a crisp white shirt. And every night he comes home wrinkled and pit-stained with his sleeves rolled up.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

And he, compassionate creature, who drew from me the arrows of sorrow one by one, listened, and when I came home I was not alone. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lily had finally come home late that night of the recital, I’d broken the news to her that our mother had been there and had seen her and Nathan. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So I kept working all day and felt let down when I came home with only four Zim dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe she wants to pretend that she’s still alive, that one day she’ll come home from work and everything will be normal again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“My parents want me to come home. Back to Chicago.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their fathers were off working in a mine somewhere, able to come home only during the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Sam, you have to come home. We need you. Your people have taken Father from us; they’ll have to give us you in return.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where will we fly? When will we come home?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Dad came home that night, Mother told him the same story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He came home with a small fortune: fifty pounds in prize money. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I just wanted Dennis to get out and come home because the kids and I missed him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems her son never came home from work three days ago.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Half my life I have waited to come home, and for what? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The docile, obedient student came home a shrill and precocious son who insisted on correcting and teaching his parents with the remark: ‘My teacher told us....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small sadness niggled at the back of her mind: this meant Joe would not be coming home until the end of the summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“On Sunday, when your son came home, was he alone? Or was Perry Smith with him?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we kids came home from school, she’d usually be in her studio working. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That one time, you confessed to stealing a book from the school library just as Mom came home—” “And I had to go to the librarian and apologize!” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They eagerly hand over more money and I smile and thank them and come home rich. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my great relief, both our kids came home happy after the first day of school, and the second, and the third. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He said to my mother, “Mrs. Meeker, even if you can persuade him to come home, they may not let him.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faintly, she remembered the time Sam had tried to catch a kitten in the prairie, and how Deen, not Sam, had been the one to come home all scratched up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jonathan had a memory too that some prisoners were sold into slavery, or sent to distant places, never allowed to come home. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at my study desk when Papa came home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cole remembered once when he had disobeyed his father and come home late. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He comes home with a used Royal typewriter for me to get started. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I came home, my brothers would make fun of me. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my father came home he had to pry the letter from her hand. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout my college years I visited Archie whenever I came home. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“And if I could help get the school started, then maybe Judy could come home,” explained Mother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour or so later Mama came home, and she looked at me and asked me if I wanted some ice cream that she had bought me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then it would be time to make the telephone call to Jack who would have forgotten to tell her he was not coming home. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When he comes home from work, it is his turn to play with Lucas, tossing him into the air and rolling around on the floor with him and a stuffed elephant. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The demigods winced, and a man’s voice boomed: “You should not have come home.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was, he now realized, because of this other incident that he had suddenly decided to come home and begin the diary today. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Hanging Out at Coby's While he gets the grub you check to see if Dad has been blowing up your phone with come home texts. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mai uses Dell's cell phone to tell her mom to come home early. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Umm, I just wanted to know when you were coming home.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the big door I could see sheep grazing in the distance and, beyond them, Miss Maggie, coming home. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

This, Edward thought, is much like waiting for Abilene to come home from school. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

My father has come home and I hear them talking in low, anxious voices out in the hallway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seven, Sekani, and I found it when we came home from the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then the road was clean-packed snow and led through the woods, and twice coming home in the evening, we saw foxes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The letters come home folded neatly inside official-looking envelopes that my sister proudly hands over to my mother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

One by one, my elder siblings broke with her rules, coming home bearing fruits of their own confusion, which we jokingly called their “revolution.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure to come home between now and Thursday. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s only a few more tasks on my list before you can come home with me,” she said to me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I did not say anything when your grandfather came home that night. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Maribel’s parents and my parents had decided between them that my father would be the one who would reprimand us when we finally came home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m amazed people come home to the community. I don’t know how you go home to the community.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He came home with a mania for running. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lynn came home the first week of November, on a rainy Saturday. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It sort of felt like yesterday, when I came home from school and studied myself in the mirror, wondering what the boys saw when they looked at me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And...to ask Styx if he wants to come home.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The thoughts often came to her as she sat alone in the kitchen waiting for her mother to come home in the evenings. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would I come home one day to find my dad bleeding to death on the floor? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He and Salim would visit us often, he promised, when Salim came home for the holidays. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as we came home tonight we got paid again, and the same little girl brought us a plate of egg and chorizo and tortillas. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

You read of Lancelot in some noble achievement, and, when he comes home to his mistress, you feel resentment at her because she cuts across the achievement, or spoils it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony came home, saw Louie, and sank into a chair, his face soft with relief. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Prim comes home from school bubbling over with excitement. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When your mother came home, she gave you such a fierce hug. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After Johnny had come home whistling his “Molly Malone” as he ran up the steps, after all had eaten of the lobster, caviar, and liverwurst that he brought home, Mama and Neeley went to bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was never coming home.The old miner gets off at his stop somewhere in Pennsylvania. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, when he comes home, dark circles hang beneath his eyes, and he sinks into a velvet chair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I come home III read em and tell you if they be rite.... Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drive took us up 1-15, the same route he’d driven with his parents when he came home from his first mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Only Francie and the cop on the beat saw him come home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When are you coming home, Mami? When are you coming home?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined coming home to them without any food. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Then I shall come home and teach drawing for my living,” replied the aspirant for fame, with philosophic composure. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I know is, I hate being away but coming home is the worst. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And if she became Little Miss Central Florida Tire, her father would see her picture in the paper and come home. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

When my mom came home and saw all the pills spilled next to my bag, she freaked out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I tell her School was good, lunch was good, coming home was good, I don’t have a lot of homework, and yes, I will make myself a snack. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

An ex-Marine mailman who came home from a war and had one more son. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His dad told him: If you ever start taking drugs, or drinking, don’t come home. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Fighting it out seemed likely, especially a few days later when Dad came home with more than a dozen military-surplus rifles, mostly SKSs, their thin silver bayonets folded neatly under their barrels. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Mom came home I didn’t say anything. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And in the later afternoon, everyone would come home, looking tired, hardly noticing the demons who lit the gas lamps. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What, is he coming home, and without poor Lydia?” she cried. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

For what seemed like years, Jay and I would pray for him to come home. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Dad came home with the silver, and even some gold. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They came home from that expedition, however, to unanticipated public criticism from Sir Edmund Hillary, who decried Hall’s role in the growing commercialization of Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The result was that we often came home with the leavings of countless previous picnickers. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like he was calling his ma to see if the coast was clear to come home without the mob or the coppers on his tail. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s Day, I came home to find the rest of my family gathered in the kitchen with Henry, Willow, and the baby. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, when Soledad came home to show her mother her latest prize, her mother embraced her warmly, as usual. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she might get frightened and come home. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You came home very late last night,” she says, annoyance pulling at her mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Daughter of the Chief’s flighty ex-wife, come home at last. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"I don't care if we're rich. I just want you to come home. You will try, won't you? Really, really try?" asks Prim. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Seawarth had a lordly ring to it, but down deep he was still Davos of Flea Bottom, coming home to his city on its three high hills. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But at Vocational when they read about the Jew in ‘Ivanhoe’ the other kids would look around at Harry and he would come home and cry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t see why we have to go through that every time you come home,” said Mrs. Weasley, still pink in the face as she helped her husband out of his cloak. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel like my wife does every night when I come home.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What if Ignatius comes home and sees this?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For most of our marriage I treated her as though she didn’t matter! I came home only between wars, and left her alone for months at a time! There was always war!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When their father came home and was surprised to see dinner on the table, Prudence showed him the freezer contents. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

That whole week, we had all got used to coming home to darkness and candlelight. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Obviously not. Do I appear to be in a condition that would attract prospective employers? I had the good judgment to come home as soon as possible.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mother Lois came home from teaching, she was just as upset as Grandma. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that I was worried that my mother wouldn't come home in time to celebrate my birthday. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In addition, my oldest brother, Dennis, guru of wisdom and source of much of our worldly news in the 1960s, came home from college with respect for Jewish friends he’d met. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreamed that her mama would come home. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The job at Langley was a full-time position and required a six-day workweek at an office too far away to come home on weekends, as she had done during the summer at Camp Pickett. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was dark and the bats were flying noisily above when Odenigbo came home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They came home flushed and laughing from the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother and Aunt Maggie came home that night, there was a scalding argument. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven years old, my father came home from the warfront for a week's leave. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Between the time I emerged from my study and let the baby-sitter go and the time my wife came home, I had about two hours. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started laying out her clothes weeks in advance even though my dad kept telling her she only needed two outfits—one to go and one to come home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I just stand on the sidewalk all afternoon, waiting for Mr. or Mrs. Quinn to come home, so that I can ask them where Erin is, but I don’t see them for days. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that evening, Pa comes home and tells me I am not going to die, that it is only a bad cut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I return the cab, come home, and take him for a walk. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It still bothers her that neither Gogol nor Sonia had come home for Thanksgiving this year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'd come home, and if I looked closely into the mirror I'd be able to make out a little white Alp at the back of my eye. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Papa came home to get the Cadillac and drive it to the depot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She grows angry when he comes home late, knocking on her door, rousing the household. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was waiting for him at the top of the stairs when he came home early one morning. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s closer to school, I won’t need to take two buses. I can go on Mondays and come home on Fridays,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now he never came home for the hearty midday dinner. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Dad, don’t pick me up. I’m not coming home,” I said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You came home practically naked yesterday, smeared with faerie fruit. Isn’t that bad enough? Don’t you care?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I should clean those up so Dad doesn’t come home to dirty plates and mugs with impossible stains from all the hot chocolate I’ve been drinking. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Osh didn’t say, “I told you so,” but he seemed quite pleased when I came home from school so soon after leaving. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“They want you to come home. They are worried about you. They think you might need the doctors again.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been awesome to come home with a giant check for ten million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s trying to stay away from everyone, especially his sister Anna, who came home for the funeral with her children and a nanny and is staying on for a while. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Once that was settled, he left them to deal with their family and came home to deal with his. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Anne came home from school one afternoon and announced that she had been invited to her first dance, she seemed so happy that both Dad and Mother were happy for her. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not coming home alone. I’m bringing a little boy with me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One morning I awakened to learn that Uncle Hoskins had not come home from the saloon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d ask Ali where Baba was, when he was coming home, though I knew full well he was at the construction site, overlooking this, supervising that. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I need you here to come home to. I’ve already learned that.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I am trying to finish up as fast as I can, so I can come home as soon as possible. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I think about how things are different between Hilly and me, since I came home from school. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Almost three months after dad went into a coma, I came home from school one afternoon and heard the news: he woke up. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. I wanted to see him, but then I decided that it wasn’t a good idea, so I came home.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And your fear made you dizzy, and you thought you were coming home. Does fear usually make you dizzy?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined that she would be hurt; his writing had become the best of her hobbies, and she came home every day with books and journals from the British Council Library. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Then, you just sit right there until your father comes home. He will find out what this nothing is all about.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

So from then on, every time I came home for vacation, I went to the cattle camp on my own. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just remember Addie’s dad squatting down in front of me and asking me if I understood that my mom had died, and me saying yes, and then asking when was she coming home. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Ware came home, raging because the English had searched his ship and had taken two of his men. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to get himself to work every day, as a driver and odd-job doer for one of the town’s wealthy businessmen, and then he’d come home at night and head for the bottle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When Arturo came home later and kicked off his boots, he asked what we were working on. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the day he came home and did not see Clara’s portrait hanging in the entry, he decided that matters had gone too far and confronted his granddaughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, while Mrs. Popper was still away at her meeting, and Janie and Bill had not yet come home from school, there was a loud ring at the front door. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, they’re upstairs. Makes it pretty handy. And I thought you just coming home—” “Not tonight. Maybe later. How much do they charge?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day it would be cookies in the oven when Gerald came home from school, and the next day it would be homemade cranberry sauce. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he didn’t want me coming home from school to an empty house, though he didn’t actually spend any more time with me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what’s Mister Johnny gone do if he come home and find a colored woman up in his kitchen?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Citra didn’t tell her that either way, she would not be coming home. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He agreed and every evening after he came home from work, he sent Roberto and me to the city dump to look for discarded lumber to build a floor inside our tent. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, when the boys came home, they would pick up Alyah and carry her around like a rag doll. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“But that means he has to come home with me.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I guess I ought to be more upset about all this, but last night, as an I’m sorry, Leroy came home with a sack of early okra. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I came home from school with a bad test score, Mom would look at me sternly and Dad would say what he always said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When I got back to the barn Mother was saying, “Sam, we don’t even know if he’s alive. You have to come home now. We need you.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came home from school, I’d get the jug of water, take up my position by the door, and wait there until bedtime. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One morning Pa went away before daylight with the horses and wagon, and that night he came home with a wagonload of fish. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma came home carrying two cans and a couple of brushes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad came home at six, bringing the mail. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She came home from Weight Watchers meetings to tell him how much she had lost or gained, hiding Twix bars in her handbag and then asking him, with laughter, if he wanted one. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They plowed all day and came home to nestle like plums under the limbs of their men. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head at this, and, the difficult speech halting on her lips, she said further, “Well, and my lord, come home unexpectedly.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

One day my older brother Niibin stopped coming home and it was just the two of us—the two of us and the revolving parade of men with dirt-stiff jeans and bloodied knuckles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Last night she came home with somebody—he looked very young. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Henry Metelmann remembered how his mother came home crying when she heard the news about Hitler’s appointment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was twelve, things got so bad, we’d be nervous every day when we came home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

You mustn’t go unless either I or your father comes home with you. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He came home from the hospital about a week later and seemed to get better. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom texts me: When are you coming home? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had to wait until Mama came home with some money with which to buy a bundle of wood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, he came home with deep bruises about his face, his nose and mouth bloody, his rough workshirt torn at the shoulder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed he had come home from there once already tonight, much earlier in the evening. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

One day that winter, when I came home from school, a gold Cadillac Coupe DeVille was parked in front of the house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing like coming home after a long day on the job, switching off your shield, and sinking into a bubbling slime pool. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had a loving and orderly home, bus fare to get me across town to school, and a hot meal to come home to at night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was only later in the evening that he realized Master must have forgotten about the burnt sock long before coming home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Pasqual looks after his kids during the day. When his wife comes home from her job, then he goes to work.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

As if from a distance, she heard her aunt say, “I can see that you are. Go to bed then. I’ll wake you when Hermilio comes home.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

More than once, I’ve come home from school to find her searching for cheap flights on her phone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

One day last December, Pap come home in a turrible state after he spent a afternoon working on the Tanner plantation. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

That fleeting vision, which had been a celebration for her when she came home from school, passed through Meme’s heart without a quiver. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His family would later tell investigators that he went to the gym for an hour, then came home and studied the flight plan for that evening’s journey to Guam. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

By the time he came home, the wagon would be empty, and he’d have a bunch of money in his hand.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left early in the morning for school and came home with papers to correct. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only rule was that we had to come home when the streetlights went on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When my father came home, he too took a turn at hitting us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where they came from, but like chickens coming home to roost, they flocked around me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just tell her the truth—tell her I’m not coming home because Ollie Mae doesn’t love me the way she loves them. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I need Grandpa to get better so he can come home and help me finish my oral history project. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He was good to me. He tried to stop them. He hates fighting, too. He told me that when we came home from the Dead Sea. I can’t believe they took him!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry. I was absolutely horrified when Cory came home with her. Of course I would have brought her back over to you right away, but he wouldn’t tell me whose she was.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’d seen them on the road at seven in the morning coming home with their strings of fish or with mushrooms, with fern tendrils, butter clams, sea-run trout if they got lucky. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Palmer came home that day to find Dorothy shooting baskets in his room. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Papa went to work tonight but had to come home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came home and took to his room. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then Dad came home from wherever and had one of those long talks with Mom, and they decided something without me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told Ma this once and the next day she came home with college brochures. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mom was coming home late, so I knew Dad was cooking today. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Over and over again, she begged, “Please, please, if you have my daughters, please let them go. Let them come home. They’re all I’ve got.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Did he come home on that morning ‘terribly excited’?” “I would use that phrase, yes,” said Hatsue. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remember that I’d come home early that day because lacrosse practice had been canceled unexpectedly. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He always had some victories to tell about whenever he came home from college. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go. But promise me you’ll come home if you get scared or panicked or—or if anything happens—tell Miles this, too, so he can bring you back here!” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The days were so short now that he always came home in darkness. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

When I came home from school, Mom again talked to me about tennis. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He said, “Vonetta is well enough to come home as soon as they release her from the hospital.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then Papa Will came home one evening to pack all of his belongings. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Previous failures will mean that your brother will work extra shifts and come home at dawn so that he doesn't have to see you anymore. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom comes home with my brother, Jason, who is eight. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I thought and thought and thought, and by the time my parents came home that evening, I had a plan. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smell your smell and I dream of you and I ache for you to come home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She got baptized more than once and was all the time coming home proclaiming that she’d been born again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you come home with me? Have a drink.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, when Hyacinth let Franz loose, she did not count on someone coming home at that exact moment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to come home one day to find Finn and this girl licking each other like cats. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Prudence rushed out of the house saying, “She called, she called, she called! Mom called! She’s coming home.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I told you the Latin Club was meeting today—and then I missed the bus coming home.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“When are you coming home, Papi? When are you coming home?” she asks him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he didn’t know why he even bothered to come home anymore, since he no longer got the slightest bit of appreciation for his ideas. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping it’ll be done by the time Mama comes home. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“We just want you all to come home safe and sound. That’s all. Got that?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One day, not long after Terryl and Alan were married, he came home hurting after one of those long, rough days roofing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The long walk to the Manpower Directorate, the sheer mindlessness of compiling names and addresses day after day, exhausted him, she knew, yet he came home each day with lit-up eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew, and when I would come home with bruises or a black eye he never lost his cool. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Be good to the children on this trip, Bull. You hear me. They’ve been looking to your coming home. Don’t spoil it. I mean it too. This is your lover girl speaking.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois would come home by five every afternoon from her job at Baptist College. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Telemachus cried out at her: “Mother, Mother, oh, cruel! What other woman would hold herself aloof when her man came home after twenty years?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons I'd come home from school to find Aunt Cecile sitting at the dining-room table writing down and crossing out numbers as she talked on the phone. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Though, on the one hand, he was taken by surprise, on the other he knew, had known, with an ancient instinct, that one day History’s twisted chickens would come home to roost. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d looked at Dimple with reproachful eyes ever since she came home from Insomnia Con. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the living room, flipping through the channels, unable to find anything worth watching, when Charlie and Zooey came home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Macy came home late from school and wouldn’t tell me why,” I said quickly. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

We had already tried them on the week before, but I was so excited to come home and try mine on again, now that it had been fitted. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Not about only Christmas, but about whether you can come home for good. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For all that time I was waiting to come home. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What have you been doing since you came home? Why are you hiding up in your room?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was my favorite sight when I had been away, maybe because when I saw it I was always coming home. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He comes home like that tonight, I’ll fix him a knuckle sandwich for supper. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was pretty uneventful, until my dad came home one night in early August, looking upset. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was the time when me and Diego and my moms all went to some ice cream place about two months after we found out my pop wasn’t coming home from the war. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even though I came home exhausted every day that I worked for Mrs. DiAngelo, I was getting some of my old energy back. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The real lessons start two weeks later when Dad comes home from the hospital. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I come home that night, Max has several planks of the wood in the living room, because he’s talked Helena into dragging them through the door for him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He used to come home late in the evening in his Model A truck. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes home the next day with an old bicycle tire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They went back and forth about it, quite concerned, and then, as it was getting dark, my mother came home from work. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Brother Quang comes home, throws down his uniform shirt, goes to the bathroom. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Fujiko cleaned rooms there for three years, until one day Hisao came home with the news that he had procured jobs for them with the National Cannery Company. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one was waiting for her to come home, not even a bad-tempered aunt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They always come home,” she said, “one way or another. It’s not up to us to decide how that homecoming happens.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the best time of all was at night, when Pa came home. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely it was later than he usually came home from the riverside wineshops. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I won’t be like the others who go to study at that school and never come home.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Si, mi’jo,” she answered, “but they won’t let children in to see him. You can see him when he comes home.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One evening he came home from his training weighted with new knowledge. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lights are on, her parents waiting for the fairy prom-goers to come home. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be part of it, and I knew that was the real reason why he didn’t want to come home. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon when Fatima's parents came home from work, they were ready to ask about her first walk home but noticed her hobbling. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

My father came home as usual on Saturday. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now all I had to do was go home and call Mom and Dad to tell them I was coming home as soon as I could. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“What’s going on here?” asked my father when he came home from work. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says she wonders whether people who came home prematurely might be better off living somewhere else for a while, so they would not have to deal with feeling judged. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I came home to seek my heir, aware that in doing so I faced death. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your mom and dad came home, found the bathroom flooded, and called your name. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I wish he’d come home and eat, at least,” Mother said, looking out of the window and down the hill at the empty road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was still smiling anyway, because Lieutenant Baker was coming home. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know where to go, and so he came home. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He thought of his life— going to school and coming home. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way, Mom said I could come home with you after school and she’d pick me up before dinner.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And then one day Milton came home with some new reeds from the music store. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When Mom and Dad came home at ten-thirty, I met them in the kitchen and told them I was feeling better, even though I wasn’t really. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wished Diana had come home with me like I'd asked her to. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She rang Tom and he came home and sat with her in the living room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, one time, when I was a kid, we went to Orlando for a long weekend, but Mom ate a bad piece of fish at Magic Kingdom and we ended up coming home early. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I loved the way he smelled after coming home from work. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

That night Mam’s sister, Aunt Aggie, came home from her job in the clothing factory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was painful to see my parents come home looking so worn out. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“In my day, me and my buddies would be all over the neighborhood. Wouldn’t come home till dark. You kids, nowadays...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After school one day in October, Mom came home and immediately headed for the sink to wash the marshmallow off her hands. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I ’member looking out them front windows just waiting for Cholly to come home at three o’clock. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left her alone for a few days after that, but eventually came home drunk and high and started beating her again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Naomi did hear the truck pull into the driveway seven hours later, the second time Henry came home. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gave Baby a bath, made their garri, came home earlier from work. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She always told me the story of her coming home from the hospital and my dad saying, “Where’s my kid? I want that kid in my life.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes me and him would sit out on the stoop waiting for Mama to come home and he'd tell me about girls who liked him and guys who thought they were bad. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

On his first payday, he came home and called us all into the living room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was so happy when I saw her handwriting on the envelope. I thought it was a letter to say I could come home, but she said...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Colin suspected she’d be secretly pleased if he came home one night at three in the morning reeking of booze, because that would be normal. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Any Muslim would have known that my “chickens coming home to roost” statement had been only an excuse to put into action the plan for getting me out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm at the kitchen sink waiting for Miss Celia to come home. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even so, it was only that day, in that seafront café, that it really came home to me how important this whole notion had become for some veterans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never see Marin until her aunt comes home from work, and even then she can only stay out in front. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you thinking? If you have problems, come home. We’ll manage.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then Papa came home early and sat with us and took turns playing chess, and he didn’t even seem mad that Amil won. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was now a matter of waiting out the silence until he came home. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When we came home to our bigger new apartment, we found a gift—a blender—from my best friend, and a check from The Atlantic waiting for us. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My big sister, Janae, is coming home from her first year of college, after finishing up a school internship, and she'll be spending the rest of her summer break with me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But when Don came home one night with a black eye, Charlie’s idea of advice was to tell him to “stop leading with his face.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He said he was coming home because he had something important to tell us. We used to wonder what it was. Now we know he wanted to tell us about the two of you." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“He works at a candy factory all day, then comes home, watches TV, and eventually goes to sleep. Seems pretty sad to me.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every weekend, while she waited for her mom to come home, she would concoct a story: her mother was a spy, an ousted princess, a sorceress. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If we had food, I ate before I left, drank some tea, and that was it until I came home in the evening. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few nights ago I was coming home from a double shift on the bus, which is what we call the ambulance. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the days, after Jerome left for work, I drank vodka—mostly because Jerome couldn’t smell it on my breath when he came home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dad came home last night, and Mom tried to make a special dinner. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Quincy would come home and everything would be OK. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She lay across the bed and drifted off to sleep, and was still asleep when Mia came home from the restaurant with two foam containers of leftover noodles and a new idea. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when Pa had walked his traplines quickly because the traps were empty, or when he had got some game sooner than usual, he would come home early. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your dad never came home last night. He’s been locked up.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that instant, I decided to find my father, to save him, if necessary, or at least to tell him to come home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That was his way of letting me know that—even though he was almost never there when I came home from school—he knew that the kitchen was always my first stop. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when my little sister first came home. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You can come home whenever you want — I’ll come right back as soon as you need me.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The only part I really didn’t like was when my dad came home with Abuela’s urn. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“And Oriana told me how you came home last night. I can guess the rest.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He began to drink less and come home more often. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe, who had been missing since New Year’s Day, did not come home that night or the next for her black-eyed peas. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when Ralph’s stomach began to hurt so much that he had to check into the hospital, and came home only able to eat certain foods, she found herself lined with stiff indifference. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad rarely came home from the mine, and when he did, he ate the cold leavings. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he'll be watching, every moment, every twist and turn, and willing me to come home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They talked enough about Johnny coming home drunk once in a while and about how the men looked at Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Up north, near San Jose. It’s only about 250 miles, so you’ll get a chance to come home on holidays,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was smart in math but came home with a C on his report card in math that year, so my mother went to school and asked the teacher about it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She hated to come home and see piles of bright pheasant feathers and the long thin dead bodies of the birds—though at supper she: forgot and ate and ate and ate. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was good; Park wouldn't want him coming home while Park was standing there on the front porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Mom comes home shortly thereafter and sits with us in the living room, listening to Nuah. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They would be very worried if she didn’t come home. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, the truth of the aphorism “clothes make the man” came home to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For she had also said that he, with her brother, would come home again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He comes home late roaring and singing.The twins cry and Mam shushes them and cries a long time herself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wonder if he would come home if he knew. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Case in point: when I came home this evening, my laptop was warm. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was often kept late at the theater, and sometimes he did not come home until after we were in bed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, when I came home. I didn’t mean to; I couldn't help it. I’m sorry.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been a shock to come home from the hospital and find something like that. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was still occupied with thoughts of Susan, half hoping she would not call again and half hoping she would, when Kainene came home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wil wants to take care of him, wants him to come home to be with his family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He whispered, “It’s fine, Hugo. You’re coming home with us. Now tell the Station Inspector what you know.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And I thought of him coming home to Jess, to my mom and dad so far away. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One day she came home in tears, and when I asked her why she was crying, she said she’d gotten into a fight with Suzie Q., one of the imaginary friends. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mama did not come home that night, and Jaja and I had dinner alone. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Adrian came home two days later, drunk, smelly, bruised, and without a job because Henry Ford had zero tolerance for drunkards and their bathtub gin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the King’s nephew, a boy called Castor, came to be knighted on the following Saturday—this was the ceremony which Elaine was coming home to attend—there was gaiety in the castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would come home from work every night with big bums on my hands. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a week after Aaron and Evan came home from the hospital, Ivy started her period for the first time. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“She wrote that you are fine and that you won’t be coming home for the time being. Did you see your father’s appeal in the newspaper?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could not have known, who came home with nothing, to nothing, to four years less than nothing. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You leave us at home most of the time, Mom. You come home late; you never have money.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s really weird being here now. Everyone knows that I... I’m not scheduled for classes anymore, so it would just be like coming home for autumn break, but a little early.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hideo looks pleased, but I can sense the quiet, dark side of him returning the longer we stand here, as if coming home had given that side of him the fuel it needs to exist. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The street was crowded with the bicycles of people coming home from work and with electric trolley buses blowing horns and crammed with passengers. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not coming home. I’m going to run and keep running. I’m going to run until I reach Washington, DC.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

After she pulled into the garage, the FBI assumed that Edward Lee and Mary Howard had come home for the night. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had vowed to Mr. Carter for decades that she wouldn't die until he came home from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The disembarking passengers are mostly businessmen coming home from work, but also young couples and mothers with small children. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Father finally came home around five o’clock, and we called Mr. Kleiman to ask if he could come by that evening. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I had been so focused on my phone that I hadn’t heard everyone come home. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

One day, Kim comes home grinning from ear to ear because he has caught a small wild bird. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew how much he’d enjoy hearing about a party when he came home. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘Much worse in a way. It comes home to you, as they say; because it is home, and you remember it before it was all ruined.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At some point, I get up and go to the bathroom, mainly just to clear my head and text Violet, who comes home today. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He worked all day with a sharp tiny pocketknife on a small block of wood, and when we came home from school he had carved a little face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He never comes home during the day. Just do the heavy cleaning and teach me how to fix supper and it’ll only take a few months—” My nose prickles from something burning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Ted”—she pointed to the smallest paper Brewster—“could come home and tell the other kids how he thinks he saw one of the criminals, going into a certain house.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even big things like when my dad, a cop, started working longer hours and could barely stand to look at me when he finally did come home. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

So he came home to try to knock down Portuguese rule on his own and create a people’s Angola. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not used to coming home to an empty house. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was a rule that when Papa came home late, mama was to open the door. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when my parents came home that night, they assured me that no one was going to deport us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A second-grade student, I was the one who came home and corrected the ‘simple’ grammatical mistakes of our parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t she know that the only way he was going to come home was in a box? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t stop until my father came home. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

What if she knew that I sometimes wore eye makeup and washed it off before I came home? When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The people coming home from work had filled the street for a while; now they thinned out, melted away into houses, out of sight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” l said, “I guess you’re my cat now. So you might as well come home with me.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even after they'd been married and had their own families and often couldn't make it for other occasions, the four daughters always came home for their father's birthday. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It might’ve been the first time Toby had ever not taken an invitation from Luke to come home. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But after the search for weapons, I had a different feeling about it: it was real and it could come home to me, too. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Tomorrow,” he told us at dinner, "I’m going to make a cement bird bath. All those who want to watch me should come home right after school, and we’ll make it in the late afternoon.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept promising she would come home soon. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A few days later Dad came home with the most frightening machine I’ve ever seen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The girls went to school, came home, watched TV. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe you and me can go together when you come home. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to him: if she will not come home, then maybe he can go to her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So after each birth, Mrs. Richardson had returned to her job, crafted the pleasant, wholesome stories her editor demanded, come home to fawn over her little ones, waited for the next baby to arrive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What would it have been like had you never come home? I can’t even explain to you. No words can tell you how we felt.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Me coming home each day, kicking off my shoes, us making dinner together, then crawling into bed, with me tiptoeing out when midnight approaches. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If this is correct, Tisquantum had barely come home before being kidnapped again. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The boy had come home early because there was nothing to do in the fields. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers come home with a message—Daddy’s spending the night at the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There she could go to a party dressed for the party and come home in the same dress, instead of rolling her clothes in a saddlebag and riding ten miles, then unrolling and pressing them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Laman comes home he wants to read in his bed or sleep and we have to be quiet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I want to help her, so she can come home.’” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was like coming home for me, too. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bors would be coming home eventually, but the others were never to return. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks before he came home for Christmas, Sounder crawled under the cabin and died. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happy as a fly and just as industrious, he lived with her for six years until he came home to find her with another man. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came home one day and a boy was with my daughter.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In late afternoon, before her husband closed his office and came home, she called her son to her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fifth-grade student in Oakland recently came home from school and gaily told her mother that her super-nice teacher had written the answers to the state exam right there on the chalkboard. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Let him come home because I've already got everything I need. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, it was a good thing he had not come home with us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered that Francie went further to school and came home a bit later. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ray wears a special T-shirt when he comes home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Pa came home early enough that night to have dinner with us, but he didn’t come alone. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

On more than one occasion he has come home from the university to find her morose, in bed, rereading her parents’ letters. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With his arms around me, for the first time since I came home, I cried. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I used to work construction, and when I’d come home from work, I’d sit down and I would tutor him for three or four hours. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came home with a crescent-shaped scar on his temple, seriously weakened vision in his left eye, and a suspicion of his own cowardice from which he could never recover. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other kids came home and threw their schoolbags in the corner. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And even as far away as Ithaka you’ve heard of Agamemnon—how he came home, how Aigisthos waited to destroy him but paid a bitter price for it in the end. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from Father, saying he wouldn’t come home. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She came home from delivering the milk and her parents were wooden. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Because this afternoon ... because it felt like we rode out there to Sears together, and ... and then we came home alone. And I didn't like it." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the question, Hideo seems to waver in place, and I can see that, in this instant, he knows his brother never came home, he knows something terrible has happened. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He bites his nails whenever he does something wrong and has to sit on the punishment chair until Papi comes home. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Mom picked August up, and the moment he came home, he went straight to the bathroom and threw up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But she feared that this was because theirs was a relationship consumed in sips: She saw him when she came home on holiday; they wrote to each other; they talked on the phone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of when Heritage came home, all bloody from serving as a child soldier, and I was afraid of him. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I came home and our troop train got to the southern states, I had to leave and switch to the colored cars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was living in Chicago when they first got Melina, and every time I came home the animal was bigger. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I am waiting on the couch when Joon comes home around dinnertime. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I know it was. on a Sunday because we were coming home from church, and every Sunday in my childhood meant church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every weekend I come home with more money than I could make after a month of working in the fields for Mariana and Alfonso. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to get back to the community. The plums aren’t in yet. And after that the apples. Everything has to be ready for when Rain comes home.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t going to ask my father for a divorce. She was on her way to ask him to come home.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

David Oshiro was in the eleventh grade when his brother Robert came home on leave from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And it came home to me, with a kind of chill, that Tommy had been going through what he’d been going through not just for weeks or months, but for years. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother figured that once Sam realized that his own side had captured or maybe even killed his father he’d come home and help manage things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because Jalazone boys also fought often, some days my brothers came home trying to conceal puffed-up eyes, torn clothes, or long scratches across their faces. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But that wasn’t the way Sam felt about it, and I wasn’t exactly sure he’d come home even when he finally found out that Father was gone. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished Papa would come home; it would make her feel safer. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

From the minute she came home from the hospital, she was a really happy baby. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There was the dry hot summer morning when I scratched my bare arms on briers while picking blackberries and came home with my fingers and lips stained black with sweet berry juice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing apart, we shouted that we wouldn’t come home until he assured us he would not kill Zuraiq. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every now and again one of them came home to testify of the wonders the Lord had worked through him, or her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dad is out looking for a job again and sometimes he comes home with the smell of whiskey, singing all the songs about suffering Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“A wife has to look her best when her husband comes home,” she always says. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When Johnny came home, Katie told him that Sissy was never to come to their house again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my father came home in the evenings now, the first thing he did was to announce how long the siege had been going on. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was practically a child at the time, but I remember when he used to come home on furlough and all, all he did was lie on his bed, practically. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as Mom came home from work she dropped her purse like dropping anchor and marched down the hallway. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The children were coming home from the creek. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes home drunk but he’s quiet and passes out on the floor next to Mam’s bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The chicken came home to roost about a month later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she comes home from work, they sit on the couch, watching her favorite soap opera, with her hand resting on his arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He left early and came home early, and in the afternoons we all played games. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After any of our things come home from the pawnshop, Mom spends an hour cleaning them. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Later, when the moon had climbed high over the courtyard wall, Gebu came home again. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

My year in Britain came to an end and I rushed to ‘come home.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You went to get your hair done? Instead of coming home? Aren’t you going to the spa next weekend?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Blaine came home, she sat at the dining table, watching him chop fresh basil in the kitchen, and said, “If only the man who wrote this book could be the president of America.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we learned that in school. Post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s what a lot of the veterans have after coming home from war. But how can a whole nation have it?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My parents came home at six, hugged each other, and hugged me. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Adam looked forward to Thanksgiving when Aron would come home from college. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would plan that they were best friends and think about the time when Celeste could come home with her to eat supper and spend the night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He tried to hide it, but every time I came home from driving by myself after that night when the beer can dented the driver’s door, he’d scour the paint job for scratches or dings. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And I will enjoy this lawn when I come home for the holidays. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lefty did recover and came home from the hospital. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad you came home. I knew you weren’t ashamed of me!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And every minute of every year I was trying to come home. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the toughest part—tougher than the school, than the food, than walking home—was that gradually I was coming home to people who were not the same as I was anymore. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she will wait a bit longer in case her uncle comes home, in case she hears anyone pass by, the town crier, a fireman, an American serviceman with gallantry on his mind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He will come home for Christmas and hopes Theo will, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had come home after working until four a.m. at the Pen and Pencil Club, the North End bar he owned. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon, Miss Leefolt come home with her hair all teased up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Then come home with me. I don’t want to go home by myself.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Later that night my mother came home from work. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When he came home a fight ensued, and my father, after a violent struggle, threw the sailors out & proceeded to beat my mother. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d break his face if he came home with the craving. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’d come home from school and shrug through my parents’ many questions about my day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richter, who was something of a character, had said that she was certain that he would “come home lost.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother came home only to sleep, and my father did not come home at all. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After much pleading and promises of reform he succeeded in getting her to come home and he abandoned his concubine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Please cast a magic spell and come home soon. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I also knew I was going to hate that whole part of the experience, even if I came home with a million medals. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Mam says it’s driving her crazy to come home and find these old men drinking out of her favorite mug and mumbling and scratching by the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mother and Daddy were waiting when she came home from school on the day. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was leading a double life, trying to be an American kid at school but coming home to teach my parents English and help them pay the bills. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"I'm not sore. Senlis is a good place and we can stay at the Grand Cerf and take a hike in the woods and come home." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

If you should learn your father is alive and coming home, you could hold out a year. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Edward,” she said to him after she was done winding the watch, “when the big hand is on the twelve and the little hand is on the three, I will come home to you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

When Mom came home from the hospital, she was tiny. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Penny came home from the hospital with bumps and bruises, a cast, and a new red hat. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“All right, Sam, if you’re not a coward, come home with me and see if everything is all right.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master came home from a meeting early that evening. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Forty-five minutes or so after I start working, Chloe comes home. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That way, Valentin said, “those on the ground would know that everybody was coming home with a victory.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I remembered coming home from kindergarten and showing Grandma the songs and dances we had learned. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were coming home from church, a big group, my mom and Andrew and Isaac, her new husband and his children and a whole bunch of his extended family, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When Selvam came home that night from his studies my husband broke the news to him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have to come home some time.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the next several weeks, he retreated to the mine, coming home after I was in bed and up and gone before I woke up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the text wasn’t asking where she was or when she was coming home. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Where I stop coming home so he stops making dinner, and I'm not around to see how much he needs me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When she was coming home in the rain on the expressway one night, the defroster conked out and the windshield fogged up. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My older brothers came home from college and admonished me, beating me from one end of the house to the other. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had turned red in the sky, before it began its descent, when Uncle Mbaezi came home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then Byrd and Frank told Axel the truth about a baby that never got to come home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Aunty, you go on thinking I’m a lady, just for a little while, just until five o’clock when Atticus comes home. Then you’ll find out different. Well, goodbye.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’d come home from Morgan’s sleepover, feeling too big for my skin. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Hugo stayed up all night waiting for his father to come home. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Just don’t mention it when—yes, when—you come home in a few weeks. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He told Colin this sometimes, when Colin would come home from school sullen, tired of the Abdominal Snowman, tired of pretending that his abject friendlessness didn't bother him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I came home, stuffed away the boxes she had given me, and my life kept going as if there had been no change. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed with Francisco until visiting hours were over then came home, exhausted, hungry, her eyes red. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When Morgan won an essay contest at school, Don came home with a present for her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s explore our options then, Mr. Sorenson, shall we? And in the meantime— for a day or two—Dorothy can come home with me.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A few days after he had broached his plan to Tessie, Milton came home one evening with a present. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“But I wasn’t sure there was anything to tell. I only realized I really liked him after I came home.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I heard Papa come home from work, I roused myself and looked at my book. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At TEN-FIFTEEN, when Theresa came home, everyone was still talking and toasting. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you do not come home on the P. & O. boat?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coal wives bring pig knuckles and cheese; they pass around Werner’s acceptance letter; the ones who can read, read it aloud to the ones who cannot, and Jutta comes home to a crowded, exhilarated room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now Mariam dreaded the sound of him coming home in the evening. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The funny thing about it was I don’t think they would have felt let down if I had quit and come home. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the tail end of the crab season Call came home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited on the front steps until bedtime, but he didn’t come home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He started having dark moods, staying out late and coming home drunk, and losing jobs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We did our best to ignore him, until the day I came home to find my father with his head in his hands. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After we came home from the hospital that night—with no Devon—Dad was yelling and kicking the furniture and the walls and he started pounding the chest with his fists and shouting, Why? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like Mr. X came home,” I say. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Get it and promise to pick me up at the bus station whenever I come home.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the way to school, Naomi did not tell the twins that Henry was coming home. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many times when I came home, the sun was high in the sky. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But things just got worse, with Alfred stealing and coming home on drugs, and eventually Deborah realized she couldn’t do a thing about it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When she came home from her lecture, he was in the living room waiting for her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I will wait and plead with him to let you come home.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mama kept pleading with Minerva to come home. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that night, Doha’s father finally came home. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As long as they don’t come home with a disease or a baby, what’s the big deal? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Which is why I’m surprised when he comes home one afternoon from some kind of practice session and lays into me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His life had taken a most unpleasant turn since he had come home for the summer with his end-of-year report. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And'it was across the Tumblestone that they came home now, though the boy wore plate and mail in place of swaddling clothes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The woman frowns slightly, but keeps writing, and without looking up she says, "And when do you expect Bobby to come home?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had expected her to come home full of energy, gushing about the other students and her teacher and how much she had learned. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“As long as you are safe, who cares about a car. He wanted to come home to see his mother!” she beamed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes home that Friday night, throws his wages on the table and says to Mam, Are you happy now? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They came home to find him at the dining table, bent over loose sheets of paper, writing letters to newspapers and magazines. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They must have left when the nurses came home. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I come home to a note that says, “Pizza. 555-4892. Small tip this time.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Glad to see you know how to come home,” he says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And she'd tell him she would, then come home and tell him his jokes were working. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lori stayed up all night to confront Dad, but he didn’t come home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night we were all sitting at the drafting table watching Lori put the final touches on Shakespeare’s hair when Dad came home drunk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The jaegers circled, the longspurs tumbled on their wings, and at last Silver came home. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened to you?” she said when she came home. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had noticed them on the kitchen shelf when she came home from the funeral and had put them in her breast pocket. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I stayed there and waited for Thomas Sutpen to come home. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just hate that this is the reason I had to come home.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I often watch television while doing my chores, making sure to turn off the set fifteen minutes before they come home, so it has time to cool off. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the fact that I never even told her I was coming home this weekend. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Do we have to wait until Dad comes home?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, the newspaper is printed, the machines are shut down and each man punches a clock and leaves but only Colored folks come home to Nicholtown. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Said he was going to be passing and not to worry about the stove....When did he come home? I knocked earlier and he wasn’t there!” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

More sightseeing in D.C. is planned for Saturday, then we come home on Sunday. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As Fadi watched her happy reunion back with her parents in Chicago, he wished Mariam were on a plane coming home right then. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I came home from Sandringham and my mom was very upset and worked up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen him at all since I’d come home from school. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a little after five, so we don’t have much time before Kelsea’s father comes home. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Rasheed came home that night, he brought with him a brown paper bag. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was something in her which loved to see him bow—when he came home, stinking with whisky, and crept with tears into her arms. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Did she come home? Did Peeby phone the police? Oh, I hope this isn’t a sad story.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Our plan to come home early had backfired completely. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I prayed every night to come home and find you here,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to the clinic. But if you do a good job, Dad’ll take you to the video store when he comes home.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood that way in the little rented room with the sunshine pouring in until Guitar came home. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps when Call came home—perhaps—well, at the very least when he came I could turn over my tasks to him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Noah before she left that afternoon that she was going to ask Dad to come home so we could be a family again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She came home from the store with all kinds of junk food I could take. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We increased our pace; neither of our mothers would condone us coming home late. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Naomi made her move the next night when Henry came home in high spirits. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No words are exchanged as ours eyes search the fields waiting for him to come home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I found Henry this morning. He knows he did wrong, and he’ll be coming home this evening. I thought you might like to know.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he didn’t know that Father was gone, and it worried me that he might be afraid to come home. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came home from school one day and no one answered the door, so I went and found the secret key that we keep under a flowerpot behind the kitchen door. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day Don Julio, who already looked like a boxer who had taken too many hits, came home bloodied and bruised, his eyes lost behind swollen cheeks and nose. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When Johnny came home from work, he stopped in the doorway of the bedroom, squinted at his wife, briefcase still in his hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The only noticeable thing was that he would come home much earlier than usual, maybe four in the afternoon instead of the usual eight or nine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for nights when he comes home with an action movie. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Matthew Wood did not come home for the good meal they had made ready. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My father came home one evening with the news that Mr. Hull had been transferred to the Shanghai Y.M.C.A. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you could come home with Ryan,” said Mrs. Bramble. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It means, in the Yoruba language, “the son who has come home.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said the nomadic Indians had watched for her appearance as a sign of spring, a signal the mountain was thawing, winter was over, and it was time to come home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He came home waving it like a banner. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall, I came home one day to find that he had hung several of my stuffed animals from my ceiling fan, each with a noose around its neck. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Eleanor had spent so much time thinking about what it would be like to finally come home and how much she missed everybody—she thought they'd throw her a ticker tape parade. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When we come home, Adria and I will change into shorts and race around the house with our four German shepherds, whose doggie beds are lined up in the hallway right outside my bedroom door. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With tears in my eyes, I said, “Tell Mama I’m sorry for not coming home last night.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped watching for Mr. Tomony to come home on Saturday nights from his New York jaunts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re not going to be watching movies on the couch when I come home or looking for meteorites in the woods. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, keep an eye on her next week, will you, Minny? I’ll be gone and— I don’t know. Just call me if she doesn’t perk up. I’ll come home early if I need to.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden she thought it was silly that he lived so and went to New York and came home longing for where he had been. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, when Dad came home and we told him what had happened, he said he was going to kill that lowlife sonofabitch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The last week of the month, when everything was warm and green, when there were hawks gliding on the high breezes, Lil came home. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Gone was the swagger he used like a glamour to hide this needy boy who was begging me to come home with him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

After two months in the hospital, she came home with a glass eye inserted in her right eye socket. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That evening when I came home from the university, she was still there. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We fell into a familiar sad huddle, which took me back seven years, to the night Papa never came home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like coming home, but to a place without memory or thoughts. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Lupita had come home from the fields, she showered, washed her hair, and got into her petticoat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as she said hello, I started bombarding her with questions: “Mommy, are you coming home, ever? How come you didn’t stay after the recital? Are you still mad at Daddy?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I can comfort her till the cows come home. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

One evening in May, when we’d been saving our money for almost nine months, I came home with a couple of dollars I’d made babysitting and went into the bedroom to stash them in Oz. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When our father came home one night, I asked him, “Aba, will we have to burn our TV as well?” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A year later, I came home from school one day and called to Mom from my bedroom while I was getting changed, asking her if I could play Saturday morning rugby league. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mister Singer would be pleased when he came home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t come home from school, her mother didn’t worry; she thought the child had stopped somewhere to play. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tanisha and her mom had rushed to the eighth floor to get Pop Pop and also Daddy, who happened to have come home early from work. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is that ugly snap Edna sent me last week when Michael came home with Roli and me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Because when I came home, the car—my car—was missing. I thought someone had stolen it.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

To the seaside they went, after much discussion, and though Beth didn’t come home as plump and rosy as could be desired, she was much better, while Mrs. March declared she felt ten years younger. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Mitt came home with his clothes soiled and said that they had pushed him down to the ground and put dirt in his mouth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What time is your dad coming home?" he asked. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Now a single question ran through Mac’s head, over and over: would his son be coming home? Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the second day, when I came home from school, I heard a terrible groaning coming from the bedroom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When at last he lifted up his eyes he saw a new Heaven and a new earth; and he heard a new sound of singing, for a sinner had come home. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And so Wilbur came home to his beloved manure pile in the barn cellar. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I might come home when I was about thirty-five. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Bill complained that the dog cut into their social life, since they always had to come home early for fear of what the dog might do to their apartment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They saw their mother only when she would come home to feed them dinner, but as usual, she left their care to the maid and stayed by her husband’s side. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And you come home to the purtiest one of all,” I answered. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa came home from a long day at the hospital and during dinner he told Amil to stop smiling so much, that it made him look ridiculous. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Tommy came home that year for Thanksgiving break, his father told him they were splitting up and the reason. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Molly finally called to say she wasn’t coming home, so it would just be us tonight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a thicker, darker smock than the one Mom would come home wearing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize you come home every day and ask me to compliment you?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

After a long time her Dad came home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In May, the semester over, he came home to go on his mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I already told you! I made a deal! If I take Radar home, then Dad will come home.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

When we came home my sisters had to cut up my dinner every day and help me get dressed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you came home waxing poetic about socialism and ménages à trois, then they might be a little freaked out, too. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The old man, following my eyes, cried with great triumph, “My son’s come home!” and we both went out to the drawbridge. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He took any kind of job he could find and he would come home, dog-tired, in the evenings, and give whatever he had made to my mother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to work, he disappeared for many hours at a time, he came home, he slept. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Students coming home from school are easy to spot, their backpacks and fat headphones dotting the crowds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her face would be glowing when he picked her up, and she came home hungry and happy each day. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was the long wait for my father to come home that was worse. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He ended up coming home only to change his clothes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Johnny, please don’t come home...” she looked towards the bedroom door. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picture myself coming home to a wonderful house with white picket fences, but slowly my picture starts to fade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time they left, I understood: my daddy was never coming home. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I want this done before Muhammad comes home and says something to make me mad at him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then I came home with six little tomato plants in plastic containers. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, it was that my dad should’ve insisted that my brother come home if only for an afternoon. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“As soon as this terrible war is over he’ll come home again.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my worry over her mother coming home and finding us there wrestled a million other troubling thoughts, and I couldn’t relax. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even though I always leave him dinner, I never know when he’ll come home from work to eat it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Screaming when I left for work in the morning. Screaming when I came home at night.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Francie remembered the last time Papa had said anything to her was that night when he came home sober singing the last verse of “Molly Malone.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the times he had come home injured. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water’s edge for their stolen children to come home. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Doris was okay with this mainly because she was always working late, and I would never get to hang out if I had to wait for her to come home first. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have time for your games. The Committee of Safety suspects you a Tory, in cahoots with Governor Tryon. You’ve come home to fight us who strive for freedom and liberty.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gram said, “I’m so glad Peeby’s momma came home. I wish your momma could come home too.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just as Sam and Mole went into the tree house, Chup came home to feed and brood Oksi, and Frightful took off. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then one afternoon, when I was eleven, he came home, sat down on the couch, and stared blankly into space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She never slept soundly until she knew he had come home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had come home with samples of a new biscuit, and he passed the green packet around before we started dinner. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course she will. Think of being here with Vivi as an apprenticeship. You learn what you need to know, and then you come home.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it’s like to clean houses all day and then come home and keep cleaning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every day before I leave my mom me percina with the sign of the cross, praying that I come home safely. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I finally said okay, but then the day before I was supposed to go, Bertha came home with a lunch box covered with ponies and rainbows. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And when I come home on Saturday evening, looking forward to a day off, I discover a house full of chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mercedes came home for Christmas, and other relatives gathered at the Chavez house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Two weeks into my new life running a Nazi boarding house, I come home from work with a basket of beets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"You know, you could come home with me," I said, unable to hold my tongue. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I breathed in and out with Daddy’s breath, in the dark, waiting for my dog to come home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moments when I come home from an errand and he runs to me and throws his arms around my waist like I’m the most important thing in the world. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she came home, and the four of us left them alone and hid in Will’s room. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Please let me do this alone. I promise we’ll come home. I just need to tell Julia how the play ends.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

If she came home before we went to bed, we saw the man come alive. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when my great-grandmother passed we were all at my grandmother’s house, trying to clean it up so she could come home to a house of happiness. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

April was thinking about the next day, telling herself that it didn’t matter whether the people at Wilson School were friendly or not, because Dorothea would write soon saying she wanted April to come home. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just like this that I had come home. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

After my mom came home, my dad and I headed for Best Buy. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After dinner TJ and I start to practice, even though Pop Pop still hasn’t come home yet. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I came home from work there was a potato peeler in the kitchen drawer, and a tablecloth on the table, and chicken curry made with fresh garlic and ginger on the stove. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he first came home, he was always having chills, she remembered, and had to stay in bed mornings with the hot pad at his feet. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I just sat there looking at them, until they walked away among the shadows. Then I climbed down out of the tree and came home.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened as the father came home and shouted at Bryce. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

So Johnny ate as little as he could, and did not come home at noon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming home,” he said, and set it down again and picked up his keys. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not long after the Crowell house bombing, another close neighbor, Mrs. Ryles, came home from teaching school one day and saw a mysterious brown paper bag lying in the bushes by her front porch. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Get there at dinner time on Saturday, come home after breakfast.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I'm sitting on the couch wearing nothing but a blue fleece blanket, and no one is coming home for dinner. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a silly thing to ask. You know I did. I was here when Mellie came home from the hospital with Joseph and Bridget. God, how they loved that baby. Don’t know why she...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Two years ago Naheed had come home from elementary school and announced she was going to be a heart surgeon when she grew up. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

"I'm fighting with you over how you can't cook anything and how I have to come home from chem lab to a stinky apartment and no dinner and you tell me this now?" Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

By the time he came home each day, I just said I’d been at soccer and he didn’t know the difference. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

On occasion, she had come home from her class with a broken toe, a bloody nose, or a black eye. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he came home and told me, I’d have to as well. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she rolled me to her house, she said, “We’re gonna clean Doodle up and have him waiting for Penny when she comes home. You hear?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Ignatius comes home about a hour ago dressed up like a butcher.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Harry had come home for the summer holidays, Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a bomb that might go off at any moment, because Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Frightful came home with a rabbit and dropped it in the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

No matter what happened at the dance, I still had a valentine card to come home to. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about my mother, who was coming home from rehab soon. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

That was also one of the biggest fights ever on Herkimer Street when Pa came home from work that evening. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, coming home from bowling in the early hours of the morning, before returning to the hotel, Bobby sneaked into the playing hall to check out the conditions. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote Sam and told him to come home, but he never did come home and I never did see him again. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wipes away the blood spots and tells us get back into bed and stay there till Dad comes home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was worried that if I came home with no supplies, he’d think I was sneaking around doing something bad. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, he had come home from school to find—as he often had—Morris's motorcycle parked in the back of the house. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On those nights that she was, she made a point of taking a plate to her room before Babi even came home. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Already, the phone calls from my mother are filled with plans for coming home. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He says don’t come home 7:48 if you lose. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Mom didn’t come home until well after dinner, and I didn’t bother leaving my room to talk with her. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I came home from school and cornered Mommy while she was cooking dinner. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t come home with your nose pierced,” Ginny’s mother told her. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I hoped Mom would come home from her first job early. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Where, with the rush of commerce, despair came home to roost and hardened slowly into resignation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s come home early for some reason. If she has gone to the library you will be able to go through the hall without her seeing you. Wait here while I go and see.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"No matter what happens," she said forcefully, "I'm not coming home." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dad comes home with the drink smell there’s no money and Mam screams at him till the twins cry, and Malachy and I run out to the playground. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The day before Mr. Chris came home from the hospital, Marly found the first spring beauty. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, after the girl comes home from prekindergarten class, they thumb through picture books and play. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The competitive part of me liked the feeling of winning, crossing the finish line, and coming home with a medal. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t been around much since I came home from the hospital, and now I understand why. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I thought he would come home. Put the Panther stuff behind him.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He fought at Saint-Mihiel and Belleau Wood, then came home to his newspaper. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I calmed down enough to be glad when my brother came home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was the crowd of people all looking for someone they cared about who was on the bus and coming home for Christmas. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally he turned to Joe and said, “Son, I’ve got a plan. I’m going to build a house where we can all live together. As soon as it’s done, I want you to come home.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When Willi Weisskirch’s father came home from work and read the newspaper headline, he exclaimed, “Oh my God! Now there will be a war. Hitler is the chancellor now, and that means war!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not every day you come home to something like this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At night when he came home from work, he hardly spoke. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If you do come home, I really need you to forget what I said. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As long as she could come home again afterward. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Why would Mom go out with her friend instead of coming home? We’ve hardly seen her!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t anything bad, but I came home late. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to work but came home early and lay in a dark corner of the basement, waiting it out. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And when George, the scholar, came home for some dental work on his horribly rotting teeth, Charles watched him lose consciousness from the chloroform. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father will not be in the picture when I come home, and I think it will be best this way. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So, how shall we celebrate when the boy comes home?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot imagine that I will ever come home for a homecoming game after I leave here, but it was fun to pretend that I was. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because Athenian bulk exports to Egypt would have been far more limited than her imports, Alexandrian cargo ships would come home far higher in the water than when they set out. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Me. I was waiting for you to come home.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered that when his cousin’s father died, the family had sent word to her in Lagos, telling her to come home because her father was very sick. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The first day that Francie came home from school and reported that she sat next to a girl who had bugs walking up and down the lanes of her hair, Katie went into action. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as she heard—Camp told her when he came home to dinner that day—she rushed over home and ran upstairs, where Mama was crying in her room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

"My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That’s the first thing I said to my father when he came home from work. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Last spring my brother and I came home from hanging out at the playground and found the entire bottom floor of the house flooded. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Mackenzie asks me as she comes home from school, hurling her backpack onto the sofa. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The drawings papered the front of the refrigerator, waiting for the next time his father would come home. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad both came home earlier than usual. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miro is...not coming home. There’s no way to get to him.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Almost every day just before Mami came home I scrambled around to do all the things she’d asked me to take care of that morning. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And it seems that some Chinese chickens will soon come home to roost, with China’s recent successful nuclear tests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come home, and Biddy sitting next to that pile of eggs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She came home from the Welch public library every week or two with a pillowcase full of novels, biographies, and histories. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to explain: “It’s just that every time I’ve come home for the past five years—before that, even. From college— something’s changed a little more . . .” “—and you’re not sure you like it, eh?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In all these years, surely one person would have found a way out and come home. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I reread all the postcards when I came home. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He usually comes home looking like he’s taken a mud bath—at least that’s what my mother says. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was still in the backyard when Dad came home. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She comes home and goes straight into the kitchen. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She warned me not to come home expecting to have the things my friends possessed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, a week after the audition, I came home from school and saw a boy blowing big, splendid soap bubbles that shimmered with colors in the sunlight. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

An eager six-year-old might raise her hand, and come home to find a ransacked house and Daddy gone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She dreamed about coming home and finding the apartment empty, cleaned out. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or I would be after the schooner Shearwater came home and I’d shared with my brother the treasure that our mother, and then I, had found. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lina said to her, “Will you come home with me for a minute? I want to show you something.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Since you cannot remember when to come home at night, your mother and I have decided that you’re not going out with the team anymore. You go to the games but then come home.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I just put the note in her mailbox and came home. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk to Mom about all this and about Macy acting secretive, but Mom didn’t come home for dinner that night. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Big Tony Bomboloni and his dogs came home so late on Thursday night that it was actually Friday morning. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“First, we went back in time—by accident. Then Trub took me to the realm of magic to find Ma. Then we came home.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

"The last time he got really mad at me, he kicked me out and didn't let me come home for a year." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Will you come home in the morning or will I come to you?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju asked, as though he was not already in bed when she came home from her second job. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But on Wednesday I came home from school with a fever, and by Thursday afternoon I was running 103.6. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My mother had to come home from the hospital without him. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The boys would ask the typical questions an elder would ask his wife when he comes home. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that he left for work later in the morning, but he also came home much later at night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go out on the porch and play with Charlie. He’s been waiting over an hour for you to come home from school.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Papa came home when we were in our rooms studying, according to our schedules. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That day I came home with a twelfth place finish. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When he came home that time, the city patrols did a routine inspection of our house, then dragged Dad off to the local police headquarters for questioning. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The women are coming home from the cinemas, laughing, and the men, singing, from the pubs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I was late to school this morning because we had just come home from Washington, D.C., very late at night and I wanted to tell my mom everything we had done. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After he went to Brown University for graduate school, Bill traveled around Europe for a while, and when he came home, he joined Teach for America. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every day after school she would come home, hang her backpack from the stone elephant’s trunk, and creep toward the Hall of the Gods. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So,” she starts, “are you going to come home now? You don’t have to worry about your stuff going missing.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Afterward my mother asked the Captain to come home and have supper with us, but when he refused, no one pressed him to change his mind. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came home from work, that was where I found you all, gathered around Pretty Boy’s cage, crying.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, Rasheed had gone out and come home with a suede winter coat for a boy, lined inside with soft sheepskin, the sleeves embroidered with fine red and yellow silk thread. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I was not so confident of coming home. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had wondered as she was dialing Minerva what Jaimito would do when he came home and found his wife and his pickup missing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come home at about the same time. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If he drank too much he came home a bitter man, then he was at war with everyone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wander Green Street, drifting behind Grandma and Kim on their way to school, then shadowing Kim and Carlos coming home. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I was putting clothes on the line after coming home from school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie came home with a large catch, and I made a mental note to pick up a book of recipes for fish while I was in Seattle next week. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brown is sure enough gunn be surprised when he come home and have some perch!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“When will he come home, Marmee?” asked Beth, with a little quiver in her voice. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I wondered how my son could be with a woman and then come home and nag his sister so miserably. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lourdes comes home late, she leaves her tamales or soup on the table, under the black velvet picture of the Last Supper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Your coming home has never had anything to do with him. You come home when your life is in danger.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He came home from the trip, didn’t he?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The good news is that we have holidays coming up, which I love especially now because my brother will be coming home soon. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when he comes home, can I still live with you? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t want to come home and find me reading in the kitchen with the electric lightbulb blazing away. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? You need to come home. We’ll pray for you.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was still pacing when Sean came home from his shift, shaking the rain out of his hair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to take care of my brother and fix everything before she came home the next morning. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Those came home shorter by a head. So you tell me, boy ... if these wildling friends o’ yours prove false, do you have the belly to do what needs be done?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You don’t have to come home for good. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mom cried when we loaded up the Buick to come home. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She begged me to come home — forgetting the fact that home was empty at the moment — but her pleas were easier to resist than I would have thought. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And, tomorrow,” Ba continued, gently, “we should return and wait for her to come home.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And then every day for the next week, I came home from school and asked, “Any news?” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They explained to the neighbors that they were raising money for Tommy Segovia and his mom, Zelda, to come home because Tommy’s new stepfather had deserted his family in New York. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

"You leave him. You leave him be. He's coming home now, like he promised. He's coming home." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And for those who didn’t come home, let us never forget. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in September, something even better happened: William finally came home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now Scott usually came home just in time for dinner, if not later. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Manda came home one day — ‘Mom, there’s a boy I loaned one of my books out to!’ Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I found me a nice lady to live in it and look after it Then I come home to Shug. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You mustn’t go unless either I or your father come home with you. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was no longer singing when he came home, if he came home at all. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For four years now she had taken her “walks” and come home offering fuki tendrils, watercress, crawfish, mushrooms, huckleberries, salmonberries, blackberries—even clusters of blue elderberries for making jam—anything to conceal her purpose. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One day in early December, I came home from basketball practice and Gay said, “Check the answering machine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I work hard all day, and I expect to come home and see something burning in here.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were just gonna watch a movie and come home.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even when he first came home and was so thin and sad. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Where was God when a young boy came home from a school that was as uninterested in him as he was in it? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

How many kids this week, he wondered, had woken up to find their worlds changed that way, their parents gone off to war, maybe never coming home? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When he came home, the first thing he did was ask me if I was hurt from falling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mom came home and plopped down next to me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She thought also of returning to some of her people in Virginia, but to come home dragging three young ones would have to be a step one rung before death for Eva. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Men coming home from work buried their chins in their overcoats and hurried toward warmth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While he hadn’t found steady work, he always had mysterious ways of hustling up pocket money, and he’d come home at night drunk and gunning for an argument. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom came home, she found our bikes parked neatly beside each other in the backyard and Jim and I sitting innocently together in the living room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My father would come home from work, patting my head, saying, “How’s my big girl,” but always looking past me, toward my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Reggie came home again for the Christmas break. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Discharge papers are already signed. Our daughter comes home today.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But imagine you’re six and you came home every day crying, begging not to go back to school. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ralph retook the driver’s test by himself in June; and every day after that, as soon he came home from work, he’d rifle through the family mail, hoping. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he comes home from the university the first thing he does is hang up his shirt and trousers, donning a pair of drawstring pajamas and a pullover if it’s cold. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say, but I remember the nights I spent with Khalil on his porch, waiting for his momma to come home. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Most nights when he came home, he hardly talked anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It actually worked a few times, and he'd come home and lie to my mother about where he got the money. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Soon it was Christmas and the inn teemed with folk going away or coming home. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I graduated, my mother and father encouraged me to come home to Birmingham and live with them until the baby was born. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remember one night he came home fuckdrunk, stumbling through the house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But later on, once he started working full-time and taking care of me, people started showing him respect, saying, "W's up, Ty," when he came home in the evening. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I wondered what stories she would come home with this time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

During long dark nights, alone with her daughters, she watched at the window, her gun loaded and aimed, until her husband came home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They came home with fish bulging out of their clothes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl said her mother took the family’s washing to the Laundromat and often came home with socks she had never seen before. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It sang to me the night my brothers came home from the war, and in my dreams I sometimes saw it guiding their footsteps as they stumbled through the dark streets of their distant cities. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ain't too into the drinking thing, mainly because, well, I'd hate to come home trashed and Doris is there waiting for me with her mean face on. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

During the day, I promptly came home after school and spent the rest of the day doing homework, reading and helping around the house. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister Paula doesn’t remember the way I looked being a major issue for my siblings when I first came home. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But the only thing she said when we got up from the table was “Listen to your uncle. And come home when you need to.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We waited for a while until my pops came home so he could go with us but when he got home he had liquor on his breath and then he went and laid down. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He laid out the terrible injustice of black and white men fighting “in brutal solidarity,” only to come home to a country where they could rarely live on the same block. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He came home late and he left early. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last week or two, Dad had been coming home very late every night. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have stayed on the other beach, on the white shingle, and come home by the Happy Valley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The house was smaller than the one we’d had, so I had to room with my brother still—and there wasn’t a bedroom for Lucas if he came home. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I came home, Alicia on my hip, a can of freshly roasted coffee in my hand, Mami was peeling ñame and yautía tubers for that night’s supper. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the father came home and sometimes he did not. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I heard you come home that night, Jane, though probably you were not aware that I thought of you or watched for you. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The baseball player is ready to come home.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’d been having all the adventures, he was going to come home with terrific stories about being in the army and fighting and all that, and I wanted to have something to tell, too. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll all have new boots and coats to keep off the rain so we won’t be coming home from school famished. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Waiting for the children to come home was completely foreign to his nature. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I still wait for him to come home,” said Peach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Boy, when you come home?" she said, sticking her head out of the kitchen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she was coming home from her cruise the next day, but she showed up a day early. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Tía Inés will have a fit if I come home smelly again, though. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He makes sure to be asleep by the time his father comes home from drinking, and to be out of the house before his father awakes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As she came home from grammar school, little boys came up behind her and pushed her down to the sidewalk. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had something to do with the way Papa couldn’t walk straight sometimes and walked sideways down the street when he came home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before, he hadn’t come home until 8:30, and went right down to his computer in the basement, at the desk strewn with computer discs, and started working again. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I saw her off the first day and was waiting for her when she came home that afternoon. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Whenever he came home, he brought stuff: most of the things we owned, our furniture, and even some of our clothes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

After a half hour Stick hadn’t come home yet. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He traveled to Fairfield in Connecticut two days ago and came home late last night,” I said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This all seems really dramatic. I don’t understand why you just won’t come home.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He worked ten hours a day and came home with barely enough energy to play with his kids and barely enough money to feed and clothe them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He stayed out late nights and came home sober and nobody knew where he spent that time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his opinion the man most likely to have news would be Menelaus, who had voyaged all the way to Egypt before coming home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Dad came home early from the office, so she went into the kitchen with him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trotter, stop preaching at me. I want to come home.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When Salvador and the others came home from church, Señor Fidencio, his wife, and a liquid-eyed, black-haired boy a bit taller than Salvador came into the house with them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

If I had chores to do, I’d come home to find an envelope slipped under the door, like from the landlord. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the last day of January, Lupita came home from seven hours of harvesting cabbages. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

When they got into town, Hazel followed the same route she’d used seventy years ago—the last night of her life, when she’d come home from the hills and found her mother missing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Children whose fathers came home every day and played catch in the dusty front yard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“No, he is. But he’s cool about that. I mean, I don’t know what he’d say if my brother or I came home and announced we were gay—” She cuts herself off, blushing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

My father came home from the hospital briefly the next day. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

You don’t come home after two years and suddenly inform your mother that she’s dying. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hannah will tell us what to do, and we’ll have everything nice when you come home,” added Beth, getting out her mop and dish tub without delay. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and then he wouldn’t have to come home. I could feed him here, and leave him here, and you’d never have to see him,” he said to Mama. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor Tom’s wife must have washed his clothes before they sent him home because everything was clean and pressed like he was going to church instead of coming home after half a week away. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman was a foreman in the Southern Pacific yards and came home late sometimes, after Mother had gone out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would go to school, do my lessons, and come home to learn root. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Everything is going to be fine. You can come home.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t recognize this new man who began coming home each night after work, this man who suddenly had lots of money for food and medicine for his kids. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The point is that two of us are coming home from the Capitol. One mentor and one victor,” says Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course she would come home every break to see it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Put these on and go to the library. Your momma ought to be coming home soon. You just act natural.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am praying to the Lord and the devil on the side that Mister Johnny doesn’t come home before then. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After he drove away, I sat on the front steps waiting for Grandma to come home. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The long-lost lover came home just in time to pay the mortgage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill came home and started to badger Joy about washing the dishes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Kaori would have kept going, but a text from her mother said it was time to come home for dinner. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I asked, running to meet him at the door when he came home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Allen came home at lunchtime, his wife told him that he had to call Bud Lawrence. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would come home from work, hug his children and Ojiugo, and ask, “How are you? What did you people do today?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Helen. I want you to come home. Whatever’s wrong we’ll fix. Just forget all of it and come on home.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had thought that Mary was drunk, because she was used to Mary’s coming home drunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he came home, I was upstairs in my room, reading. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s coming home for my sister’s graduation, which is so nice. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, Barack came home to our place on Euclid Avenue and often flopped on the couch, reeking of the cigarettes he still smoked when he was out of my sight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He would stay a few days, get them settled, and then come home. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time she was long at labor and when Wang Lung came home at evening he found his father standing at the door and laughing and saying, “An egg with a double yolk this time!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When Dad came home at gone seven o'clock he didn't mention the rocks on the driveway. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“They doubled the Horn. And sometimes they got home again. But what about all the ships that don’t come home? If ‘sailing by book’ makes men a little safer, what’s wrong with it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came home long after we were all asleep. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Would they let me out to come home for supper? Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The war’s over. The boys will be coming home.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mother came home then, and we didn’t talk about it anymore. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re coming home from work or picking up their kids or getting out of a taxi or going grocery shopping. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But now it was like their mom wanted them all out of the way before he came home. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Mom wants you to come home right now,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Homesick? We mustn’t trouble ourselves over our homes. In the end we all come home to the fuhrer. What other home matters?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From the time we got into the car to the time we came home, my mom literally did not stop talking. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Boobie came home from the hospital, everyone was an enemy, an adversary, a contributor to the wreck of his senior year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things were a lot different when I came home. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He came home six weeks after Adam was born. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tomony who owned the pawnshop came home in a hansom cab from his spendthrift evening in New York. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the chicken come home automatically at nightfall, like a homing pigeon or one of those movie dogs that walked a thousand miles by secret radar? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I come home with a pile of pictures taken with my new camera and start the “Wall of the Left Behind” in my bedroom. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Alexandra attacked like Hannibal: “I do think, Jean Louise, that now is the time for you to come home for good. Your father needs you so.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t desert, I just came home for a couple of days. Captain Champion had to go over to Waterbury for something so I decided to slip home for a day or so.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arturo came home from work each day tired and hungry, the crevices of his skin caked with dirt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to know that Mom had mentioned the d-word— surely that would shake him up enough to come home. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was six years old and I had come home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you the other three cents when my mother comes home tonight,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Too Bad’s mother came home, she gave us each a big slice of cake. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had decided to read Wuthering Heights — the novel we were currently studying in English — yet again for the fun of it, and that’s what I was doing when Charlie came home. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I came home that day, still so stunned I hadn’t figured out yet how to cry, my parents were transformed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Let him tell it, if Trey isn’t coming home sweaty and grimy, he’s not working hard enough. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some days, Father Benedict came before Jaja and I left for school, and was still in Papa’s study when we came home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, Mom calls to say she needs me to come home tomorrow. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She still doesn’t know when she gets to come home.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then there was no more, just a big bowl’s worth left for Papa in case he came home tonight. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I waited for a ride, came home, did homework, got to bed, and started over again the next day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Phoebe’s mother came home from running all her errands, she looked terrible. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z