My Way Home

In My Way Home, teenage lovers separated by war and the denial of a woman’s choice, encounter each other sixteen years later, forcing secrets to be revealed. Clare has struggled privately to heal from the injustice she experienced as a teenager with an unplanned pregnancy, haunted for years by thoughts of what might have become of the child she was forced to give up for adoption. Just as she is feeling she has regained emotional stability and has moved on from that trauma-a desperately guarded secret, even from her husband-the father of the secret child reappears, back from Canada where he’d been living. Clare fears then, that the life she’s made for herself and her family, could easily fall apart.

Author Biography

Mary Bonina is both poet and prose writer. My Way Home is her debut novel. She is the author of My Father’s Eyes: A Memoir, and three published poetry collections: Living Proof, Clear Eye Tea, and Lunch in Chinatown. Her poem “Drift”, won the UrbanArts “Boston Contemporary Authors” prize, and is engraved on a granite monolith, a permanent public art installation in the City. She has been honored as a fellow and awarded several residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, including at the VCCA retreat in Auvillar, France. Her collaborative art experiments with composers, visual artists, and sculptors, have expanded poetry’s vocabulary and reach. A long time member of the Writers Room of Boston, where she served on the Board of Directors for more than a decade, Bonina is a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.