Located in southern Arizona, The Commons is a luxury retirement community where no full-time resident under the age of fifty-five is permitted. Young professionals Seth and Allison Collier accept jobs there as a means of dealing (badly) with a recent loss. When a struggling resident, underwater on her mortgage and unable to relocate due to the nation’s ongoing crisis, is discovered to be raising her grandson in secret, the story - with the help of a well-meaning teenaged beauty blogger and a retiree with reasons of his own to seek the spotlight - goes viral. You Could Be Home By Now explodes the fallout for all involved, taking on the themes of grief and memory, aspiration and social class, self-deception, and the drive in all of us to find a place to belong. Published 2014