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Home and Away

By: Rochelle Alers
Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
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Publisher's Summary

Spanning more than eighty years, from Memphis in the 1930s and 1940s to present-day Chicago, this sweeping
novel draws on the turbulent history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, as the great-granddaughter of a former
player sets out to tell her family’s story—and redefine her own.
Harper Fleming is done with being passed over. As a journalist for a Chicago newspaper, she’s been refused a
shot at the sportswriter position she longs for. And her on again/off again relationship is going nowhere. Leaving
both behind, she heads to Nashville, Tennessee, where she plans to interview her widowed grandfather,
Bernard Fleming, for a book about his father Kelton Fleming’s time in the Negro Baseball Leagues.
When Bernard reveals health issues within days of her arrival, Harper assumes responsibility for taking care
of him. And when she mentions his father playing baseball in the Negro Leagues, Bernard gives her a trove of
letters, journals, and clippings encompassing Kelton’s career. But some stories are too personal to print without
dishonoring the memory of her great-grandmother. Instead, with Bernard’s approval, Harper begins weaving
them into a novel, telling her great-grandfather’s story through the eyes of the fictional Moses Gillian.
Chapters flow effortlessly as Harper breathes life into each memory. Particularly intense are Kelton’s recollections
of the Green Book, an annual guidebook that helped African Americans navigate the segregated South.
Negro League teams relied on it as they traveled between games, hurrying out of unwelcoming towns before
sundown to avoid the Klan.
As Harper delves into Kelton’s past, a piece of her own resurfaces in the form of Cheney, the childhood friend
of her brothers’. And as Harper honors her great-grandfather’s life, she finds the inspiration to take her own in
a bold new direction . . .

©2025 Rochelle Alers (P)2025 Recorded Books

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