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I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

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I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home

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I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a New Yorker Essential Read. A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all... From "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen and unseen. With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay and singular wry humor and wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing and surprise as she writes about love and rebirth and the pull towards life. Bold, meditative, theatrical, this new novel is an inventive, poetic portrait of lovers and siblings as it questions the stories we have been told which may or may not be true. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home takes us through a trap door, into a windswept, imagined journey to the tragic-comic landscape that is, unmistakably, the world of Lorrie Moore.

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Publisher
Vintage
Year
2023
ISBN-13
9780593536841
Genre
FictionHorror
Topics
Grief and lossGhosts and hauntingsSibling relationshipsLove and devotionMemory and history

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