Book Club Kit: The Thing About Home
by Rhonda McKnight

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Dear Reader,

I am delighted you choose The Thing About Home for your book discussion. In the story you’ll meet Casey Black. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony ends in her being left at the altar, the former model turned social media influencer has new fame—the kind she never wanted. An embarrassing, viral video has cost her millions of followers, and her seven-year marriage is over.

With her personal and business life in shambles, she goes on a journey of self-discovery that takes her from New York City to Georgetown, South Carolina, where she hopes to find the family of the deceased father she never knew. What she doesn’t expect to find is a three-hundred-acre farm that connects her to family, history, food, faith, and the land in ways that change her forever.

There is joy, laughter, lessons, and love. There is also loss, and secrets—painful ones wrapped in grief—but Casey comes from a line of women who passed on good DNA and journals to prove it.

Get ready for some yummy lowcountry and Gullah dishes. I intend for your stomach to growl a bit, but I also I hope there will be times when you smell the earth, hear the river, and feel the sun on your face in the same way Casey did as she immersed herself in her ancestral land.

I pray your journey through the pages is as inspiring and uplifting as it was for me while I wrote it.

Warmly,
Rhonda McKnight