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What’s the value of having a home to call one’s own?

Following a young, unnamed woman of color armed with multiple degrees and a bitter experience of the job market, this debut novel invokes the reality of living in a world where a reasonable demand — a place to call one’s own — is resolutely categorized as unreasonable.

“That feeling of being so unavoidably absorbed by or dissolved into another human being’s experience and then having to come back to what one might call one’s own, which is then completely alien, was hugely familiar,” said the chameleonic British actress, known for her turns in period biopic “W.E.” and the cosmic cult horror pic “Mandy.”

From the primal need for a place to call one’s own.

Hongkongers’ relentless pursuit of a roof to call one’s own — or even just to move out of the family home — sees ingenious property developers and entrepreneurs push things to their rational conclusion, and then some.