One Came Home Themes

When a family member goes missing or dies, it affects everyone in the family, and Georgie's family in One Came Home has experienced both, from the mystery of what happened to Pa in Colorado to the...

What's a Western without some good old-fashioned violence, right? Answer: Probably not a Western. In One Came Home, we start out with a violent death that leads Georgie out on the trail, where she...

Like peanut butter and jelly or Sonny and Cher, guilt and blame just seem to go together, and that's never more true than when the sister whose engagement you just broke up winds up dead. This whol...

If there's one thing Georgie has, it's confidence in her abilities, specifically when those abilities involve shooting and selling. We hear a million times what a good shot she is, and about half a...

Ah, dreams. Everyone's got one, which is why posters with rainbows, kittens, and an inspirational quote about dreams on them exist in the first place. Duh. In One Came Home, we see a lot of tension...

Pigeons. Pigeons, pigeons, pigeons. It makes us think of this scene from Forrest Gump, except instead of shrimp, we're talking about pigeons. The interaction of people and pigeons forms the themati...

It just makes sense that death, called here by its fancier name, mortality, would be a big deal in a book where most of the plot involves the supposed death of the main character's sister and said...

If there's one thing Georgie likes to dwell on more than how her sister isn't dead in One Came Home, it's how long she's known her sister isn't dead. No joke, Georgie pauses a lot to let us know ju...