Back Home the Same Day is a mother’s story that begins in Chicago at the dawn of the Great Migration as African Americans fled the Jim Crow South. Her name is Dorothy, and the narrative unfolds both in her voice and through the perspective of her son. This memoir and collaboration is also told through the lens of generations past, sharing the legend and loss that compelled the family from field to factory and beyond on its journey through the 20th century.

Dorothy’s story is one of striving and even thriving in the face of newly realized opportunity; and of affairs of the heart – a story as old as time.

At its essence, Back Home the Same Day is an intimate portrait of boundless love, the disappointment of shattered dreams, and of the glory that comes in sharing the stories with the next generation.