Coming on Home Soon

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Coming on Home Soon is children's book published in 2004, written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E.B. Lewis.

Plot

Coming on Home Soon book cover

Ada Ruth's mother goes to Chicago leaving her a message, "They're hiring colored women in Chicago since all the men are off fighting in the war.... I'm gonna head on up there," and stays with her Grandmother at home. They wait for a letter from Mama everyday. Every small distractions whether it is, a little black and white kitten, arrives at their doorstep, and Grandma tells Ada Ruth not to get attached. They both then begin to care for this little creature. There is gentle sense of urgency, seen through Grandma and Ada Ruth's quest for food and firewood.. They need Mama's check to show up. Yet, more significantly, they need to hear a word of hope and comfort – that she is "going ahead home soon."

Ada Ruth and her Grandmother listen to the reports of the battle on the radio, andshe prays for the groups of the troopers who won't return home. In the end – a letter from the mailman that Mama is returning home! Grandmother gets another blanket for the cat, and the three of them sit by the fire and read her letter again and again – a message and update that hope is alive in a dark, cold world. This story manages the difficulty of absence of a parent, and the illustrations catch Ada Ruth's aching perfectly.[1]

Anti-racism value

Coming on Home Soon investigates both race and sexual orientation inside the verifiable setting of World War II.[2] A story of three generations of women in an African-American family, during World War II. While that is a time-frame when numerous ladies needed to venture up and make a living because the men were at war, it was much to a greater extent a challenge for minorities to look for some kind of employment to support their families

References

  1. COMING ON HOME SOON. Retrieved on December 29, 2020.
  2. Jacqueline Woodson. Retrieved on December 29, 2020.