Homesick

Sela Ward, known to millions of viewers as the Emmy-winning star of Sisters and Once & Again, looks back on her own beginnings in this memoir. She describes a gentle town in the Deep South, where family and friends surrounded her, and where her weekends revolved around following Bear Bryant on Saturday nights and attending church on Sunday mornings.

Long before her acting career, Ward was a small-town girl from a family that had lived for generations on a Mississippi homestead called Homeward. Within that close community of neighbors and relatives, she absorbed values such as generosity, selflessness, and respect, lessons that stayed with her throughout her life.

The book is a journey back to that earlier world, undertaken in part to recapture for her children the magic of her own youth and in part to come to terms with the death of her mother. Ward weaves together fond childhood memories, episodes from her life and career, and reflections on what a simpler time and place can teach about drawing strength and wisdom.

Aimed at readers struggling to raise a family while keeping their bearings, the memoir explores how to keep perspective and find room for happiness amid the demands of modern life.