I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home is a novel by Lorrie Moore, a renowned American writer of short stories and novels. The novel follows Finn, a high school teacher in a small town, who embarks on a road trip with the corpse of his ex-girlfriend, Lily, who committed suicide. Along the way, he encounters various characters and situations that challenge his sanity, his morality, and his sense of identity. The novel is a dark comedy that explores themes such as grief, love, death, madness, and the meaning of home.
The novel is divided into four parts: Navy Lake, New York, The Road, and Home. In the first part, Finn is suspended from his job after being accused of having an affair with the principal’s wife. He decides to visit his brother, Max, who is dying of cancer in a hospice in New York. There he learns that Lily, whom he still loves despite their breakup, has killed herself by overdosing on pills. He goes to her apartment and finds her body on the bed. He decides to take her with him in his car and drive across the country.
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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.
“Who else but Lorrie Moore could make, in razor-sharp irresistible prose, a ghost story about death buoyant with life?” —PEOPLE
“Is it an allegory? Is it real? It doesn’t matter...[It’s] a novel with big questions, no answers, and it’s absolutely brilliant.” —Lit Hub
“[A] triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.” —The Guardian
Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a 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 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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