An Ambition to Belong

An Ambition to Belong , second book of the Leaving Home Trilogy, is  an astute and insightful psychological journey into the inner life of Jim, an adolescent  who is trying to forge his own identity. Trapped in two different worlds, he belongs nowhere: at one end his Polish immigrant inner-city Catholic family and its Eastern European peasant beliefs and terrors; and at the other a late-1950s upper-class suburban Jesuit college-prep high school in suburban Detroit where he is tota