My Home is Far Away is the story of three young sisters: Lena, Marcia and Florie. After their mother dies, they are left in the care of their philandering father, a travelling salesman, and shuttled from one relative to the next as he roams the back roads of the American Midwest. The girls sleep in shabby boarding houses and dingy motels, wander dusty small-town streets, and cling to the hope that somewhere they might finally belong. When their father remarries, that hope of stability crumbles. Under the rule of a cold and punitive stepmother, every small mistake invites punishment, and the sisters begin to dream not simply of security, but of escape. Drawing deeply on her own childhood, this is Dawn Powell's most autobiographical novel. Told with the immediacy of remembered experience and the insight of adulthood, it is an unforgettable evocation of rural Midwestern life and a moving coming-of-age story about endurance, sisterhood and the longing for a life beyond the limits of circumstance.