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What does it mean to return - not to a place, but to yourself? In What Remains of Home, Káhíndhí Wa Ngonyo traces the long, unsteady road between leaving and belonging. Told in five movements, this collection of poems and reflections maps the geography of loss, migration, fatherhood, and grace. At its heart lies a simple, aching truth: that every home we build is shaped by the ones we lost. Across continents and generations, sons inherit the silences of their fathers, only to find that love - when spoken at last - can rewrite even the oldest wounds. These are poems of distance and return, of language and longing, of the quiet work of becoming. They ask: What do we owe the places that made us? Can forgiveness heal what time could not? And how do we pass on tenderness in a lineage built on restraint? With the lyrical honesty of a prayer and the precision of lived memory, What Remains of Home becomes both elegy and offering - a testament to the power of remembering, forgiving, and beginning again. In the end, what remains of home is not what we inherit, but what we dare to rebuild - in love, in memory, in the quiet work of becoming better men.

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