If This Is Home by Stuart Evers

A man who fled his northern English hometown to reinvent himself amid the neon mirage of the American desert remains haunted by the disappearance of his first love. Summoned back by a family crisis, he is forced to confront the stories he has told about himself and the compromises he has made to survive. As past and present collide, he must decide whether freedom lies in escape or in returning to the people and place that shaped him.