"But Where's Home? is an essential addition to African American literature in the new millennium, and Johnson's voice is a breath of fresh air. Readers will be dazzled by both the psychological and the historical scope of this collection."—Jacinda Townsend, author of Mother Country and Trigger Warning

"The triumphs and traumas of a multigenerational American family will steal your heart in Toni Ann Johnson's brilliant epic But Where's Home? This book is gorgeous, insightful, empathetic, relatable, exquisitely detailed—and my favorite story collection of the year, hands down."—J. Ryan Stradal, national bestselling author of Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"But Where's Home? is a striking portrayal of the domestic: the social facades, the lies, the betrayal, the violence, the comedy, the endless longing. With this epic family saga spanning the 1960s to the 1990s and beyond, Toni Ann Johnson mines those eras for all their racial and sexual turbulence and juiciness. The result is a wry, honest look at what a mess our parents can make––of themselves, us, and each other––and how some of us survive, in spite of them. Clever, imaginative, and flawlessly written, But Where's Home? has a home on my bookshelf as a new classic."—Deesha Philyaw, author of National Book Award finalist The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Toni Ann Johnson is the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction for Light Skin Gone to Waste, which was selected and edited by Roxane Gay. The book was also shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Johnson's novella Homegoing was a semifinalist for the William Faulkner Wisdom Award in fiction and won Accents Publishing's inaugural novella contest. Her novel Remedy for a Broken Angel earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. As a screenwriter, Johnson won the Humanitas Prize for Ruby Bridges and Crown Heights.