Book of the Week: I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME by Lorrie Moore
The dual narratives in Lorrie Moore’s wonderful new novel act as calipers — one point in the post-Civil War period; one point in the chaos of 2016 — to inscribe the awkward, unsettling and ludicrous omnipresence of death in American culture. Whether describing a road trip with a protagonist’s undead love interest or the troubles that haunt a woman running a boarding house and hiding a secret one-and-a-half centuries earlier, Moore’s writing is better than ever — funniest when it is blackest; most incisive when applied to the unresolved and messy edges of experience.