The Write Question radio interview, August 16, 2012

“Your brother forgives you,” Ben Armstrong is told by his mother’s ghost, “Don’t waste that,” and so the hero of this novel begins his long journey home. What follows is a wild ride through the subconscious — a night journey toward redemption and grace. This is the second novel in Cates’s acclaimed Homecoming Trilogy, and it’s amusing and hilarious and weird, and (definitely) unlike any homecoming story you’ve ever read before.