I am Homeless if this is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
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We meet 2nd Tuesday of the month now, except when we read a longer book. Then we skip a month.
Location is announced weekend before the meeting via MeetUp message to those who RSVP yes.
Contact organizer with any questions.
From the New York Times Book Review on our next book.
Lorrie Moore’s new novel, “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” braids a historical ghost story with a zombie romance.
"fluky, fitfully funny and folk-horror-adjacent..."
The book is set during the run-up to the presidential election in 2016, a year when the world fell out of joint for almost everyone. It certainly did for Finn, a young high school teacher.
Finn’s brother, Max, is dying in a hospice in the Bronx. Then the love of his life, an ex-girlfriend named Lily, dies by suicide. But lo, somehow, here she is after her burial, undead... Finn is still in love with Lily. Lily is still in love with Finn. This is perfect. They commence a road trip....
Threaded into the story are a series of diary entries, written as grieving letters, from the proprietress of a 19th-century boardinghouse....
It’s a book about loss, and about the patience and endurance it takes to treat the dying with respect, and about the shaggy and multiform varieties of love.