I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: A Novel by Lorrie Moore bookLorrie Moores first novel since A Gate at the Stairsa daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart 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 With her distinctive, irresistible
Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know
As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid
Ricki jumps at the chance for a fresh beginning
trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them
to Harvard’s library
curious readers won’t be able to tear their eyes away from the page
A generation later
they may have other reasons to be seeking an escape
Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple
they help Frank answer his questions about how humans come in a kaleidoscope of colors
Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s first published novel
she has her live-in nanny and confidant Vero to rely on