ABSTRACT
When A. Bartlett Giamatti (1989)—who after leaving his job as President of Yale in the 1980s became, briefly, Commissioner of Major League Baseballtalked about baseball as a metaphor for life, he pointed out that in life, just as in baseball, you leave home, then spend all the game trying to get back home: back to a place where you know what the score is, you know where you stand, you are safe. This transformational journey-which all young people must take to discover who they are and where they fit in the world, to create their own version of home out of the strangeness they encounter when they are “away”—forms the basis of much young adult, coming-of-age literature. And unless they leave, they cannot know what it is they seek. As Rochman and McCampbell (1997, p. vii) write, “We leave home to find home.”
