Home of the American Circus: A Novel

Allison Larkin returns with a contemporary women's fiction novel about strong female characters, family estrangement, found family, and redemption. Ten years ago, Freya Arnalds left her hometown of Somers, New York, and moved to Maine, where she works as a bartender. At nearly thirty, financial hardship forces her to return to Somers and move into the derelict house she inherited after her parents' death. There she discovers her fifteen-year-old niece, Aubrey, has been secretly living in the house. As Freya attempts to stay under the radar, she reconnects with childhood friends, encounters old enemies, and rekindles past relationships while trying to support Aubrey and improve their circumstances. Together, Freya and Aubrey work to restore the house and confront the traumatic events that separated them years earlier. Set in the birthplace of the American circus, the novel explores a broken family's mythology, the weight of the past, and the complicated process of finding home.