Home at Last is a novel based on Camacho family folklore. It starts off in Spain and finishes in Puerto Rico. Between these two worlds, you are taken to faraway and exotic places, such as Africa and the Philippines. You are also taken to perhaps more familiar places, including New Jersey; South Carolina; Montana; and Chicago, Illinois.
Equally as diverse are the characters. The novel includes a farm boy, a blue-blooded boy, and mill town boys. In addition, you will meet an African American, Native American, and Irish immigrant.
In the novel, the international themes of friendship and forgiveness, love and marriage, and religion and politics are explored. While our cosmetic and cultural differences are exposed, our deeper internal similarities are also revealed.
At the conclusion, the novel teaches us that just when all hope seems to have been lost, common human dignity prevails.
