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Being together is more important to a family's sense of home than the location of a structure. Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings are on their own after their mother abandons them at a mall. As Dicey leads her siblings on a quest to find a relative who will provide them with a home, she learns that the exact place is less important than keeping the four of them together.

When Dicey and her siblings have to sleep next to a cemetery one night, Dicey reads an inscription on a gravestone that hints to her that “being dead was home.” That prompts Dicey to think about her own idea of home. The children have been walking for several days and Dicey is not certain where home really is. She considers that it might be “their house in Provincetown, where the wind made the boards creak in...