Home and AwayBy: Rochelle Alers Spanning more than eighty years, from Memphis in the 1930s and 1940s to present day Chicago, this sweeping novel draws on the turbulent history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, as the great granddaughter of a former player sets out to tell her familys storyand redefine her own. Harper Fleming is done with being passed over. As a journalist for a Chicago newspaper, shes been refused a shot at the sportswriter position she longs for.