Finding Home is Stan KnickÕs second novel. In it, he tells the story of the Irishman Thomas Patrick Cody, his travels, his struggles, his search for a home in America. Eventually, he will be the great-great grandfather of Miss Ruby Locklear, the central character in KnickÕs
first novel, The Healing Years. From Ireland to New York, from New York to Louisiana and Texas, from there to the Carolinas, CodyÕs life unfolds amid hardship, sorrow, and finally joy as he finds a home among the Native people of the Carolinas. ÒBut I had a home. Not just a place to rest. A family. A woman I loved. A grandson with my own Irish name. Thomas Patrick Locklear. This was what home was. Threads of life and love, stretched from past to future. Time, in its way, had found a home for me.Ó