Quotes from John Wiles

And how important in the scheme of things was it to find this person, this one person who knew (and loved) more about one than anyone else? [...] And the whereabouts of that person ultimately defined the location of the Homeland, for in the final analysis roots were people.

As for the Homeland, it had another meaning which had nothing to do with geographical place. It concerned not where you lived but how you lived, for, in effect, it defined a way of thinking, of looking at things.

although he knew he would never feel completely at home there, it would always give him a place to come home to.