Homecoming
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Homecoming in a general sense is an occasion when a person (or persons) who has moved away returns home, either temporarily or permanently. Several more specific meanings of the term include:
- A homecoming game and/or dance is, at many American and Canadian universities and high schools, the first and most important such event.
- Homecoming is the name of a New York Times #1 bestselling book by John Bradshaw (Theologian) that deals with the wounded inner child theory. It was also turned into a six-hour television series of the same name on the PBS network in the United States.
- Homecoming is the name of a poetry anthology by Julia Alvarez.
- Homecoming is the name of the breakthrough album by folk-rockers America.
- Homecoming is the name of a 1994 album by the jazz trio Gateway.
- Homecoming (in German: Heimkehr) is the name of a Nazi antisemitic German/Austrian propaganda film of 1941 with Austrian actors Attila Hoerbiger and Paula Wessely
- Homecoming is a Hong Kong film in 1984.
- There are two science fiction works called Homecoming: a novel by Frederik Pohl from 1990 and a pentalogy by Orson Scott Card published between 1992 and 1995.
- The Homecoming is a play written by Harold Pinter.