Karen White

Karen White writes fiction rooted in the American South, where houses, estranged relatives, and remembered places reveal what families have tried to leave unspoken. Falling Home follows Cassie Madison after news of her father's failing health draws her from New York back to Walton, Georgia. There she faces a sister from whom she has been separated, a former love now bound to that sister, and a family house that comes to her unexpectedly. What Cassie intends as a short stay becomes a reconsideration of the life she abandoned. The original novel dates to 2002, while Berkley issued a revised edition in 2010; After the Rain returns to Walton. White also created the Tradd Street sequence and wrote The Sound of Glass, Flight Patterns, and The Time Between. Her settings function as repositories of family history, so Cassie's homecoming develops through material details and local relationships rather than serving merely as a change of scenery.