Homebase is a novel written by Shawn Wong

Shawn Wong

Shawn Hsu Wong is an author and Professor of English and former Director of the University Honors Program , Chair of the Department of English , and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Washington where he has been on the faculty since 1984...

, first published in 1979 by Bookpeople

Bookpeople (distributor)

Bookpeople was an employee-owned and operated book wholesaler and distributor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It operated from 1969-2003. Bookpeople was one of the major forces behind the renaissance of independent publishing that occurred during this period. The business provided a wide range...

. It is currently published by the University of Washington Press in 2008 and was also published by Plume in 1991.

"Misty, poetic and often sensual, 'Homebase' is an evocative portrait of a young man caught between two cultures." said Charles Solomon in the Los Angeles Times.