# You Can Go Home Again (But It’s Not Easy), with Tom Perrotta and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Leaving home may be complex, but returning may be just as emotionally loaded. In Tom Perrotta (“Ghost Town”) and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s (“Lake Effect”) novels, both set in the 1970s, Perrotta explores Jimmy’s turmoil as he is haunted by the death of his mother, and Sweeney follows Clara as she returns home to face the scandal of her childhood. Moderated by Miwa Messer.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2026
- Runtime: 55 min
- By: Sweeney, Cynthia D'aprix
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-12329/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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