Homecoming Themes

Homecoming is the story of the Tillerman siblings lives—lives in which, one by one, the people they love abandon them. First, their dad cuts and runs, then Momma leaves them all by themselves in...

Lots of people have weird families, but the Tillermans in Homecoming kind of take the cake. The dysfunction goes back generations and the kids are feeling the brunt of it. While they're wandering a...

Four little kids wandering without food, shelter, or adult supervision is a scary thing. Heck, if you weren't clutching the edge of your seat during certain parts of Homecoming (like, say, when the...

There's no place like home, right? Especially if your mom ditches you and your siblings in a mall parking lot, which is exactly what happens to Dicey and the rest of the Tillerman kids in Homecomin...

Pinocchio learns the hard way that you should never tell a lie. Luckily for Dicey in Homecoming, her nose doesn't grow when she tells a fib—throughout their journey, the Tillerman kids have to li...

In Homecoming, there's no two ways about it: Momma is mentally ill. But while their mother is the one who's sick, it's her children—the Tillerman kids—who feel the real pain of her mental illne...

Even George Michael knew that you gotta have faith, but some folks take the whole religion thing way off the rails. In Homecoming, Cousin Eunice is a devout Catholic, but instead of using her Chris...

In Homecoming, Dicey and her siblings might be young in age, but your average children they most definitely are not. From the moment their mom ditches them in a mall parking lot and they begin thei...