A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER 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. The prose [of I Am Homeless If
This is Not My home] might be her finest.” —Claire Messud Harper’s An exquisite exploration of
grief longing and our relationship with the past . . . mixing comedy with tragedy and
exploring what it means to be alive.” —Kristyn Kusek Lewis Real Simple From one of the most
acute and lasting writers of her generation” (Caryn James 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. Moore’s
exhilarating dialogue is acrobatic her descriptions ravishing.” —Donna Seaman Booklist
(starred review) [Moore] manages the impossible in her writing: every other sentence is a
gut-punch or the funniest line you’ve ever read and it coheres into some of the truest writing
about life—for what is life if not constantly either hilarious or devastating and often both?
” —LitHub Most Anticipated Books of 2023”
