His parents, William and Mary Starling, own a theatre company in an unnamed town in England. Max is a twelve year old from a theatrical family at the turn of the century. The Book of Lost Things is similar in that Max is thrown into just as implausible a situation and left to fend for himself. The sequels to Homecoming, especially Dicey's Song (which won the Newbery Medal), were brilliant in how they took such a crazy experience as a jumping off point for how people function and react in crises. I even remember having Homecoming read to me in sixth grade - a book about the astonishing Tillerman family, four kids (the oldest one was just eleven), who, after being abandoned in a parking lot, have to figure out a way to stay together and fend for themselves with nowhere to go and nothing to eat.Īt the time, I was amazed by how Voigt could make such a crazy situation so rational and real. If you grew up in the eighties and nineties, you probably came across a Cynthia Voigt book or five in your school library.
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