A review by serendipitysbooks
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

dark emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

 I am Homeless if This is Not my Home opens with a letter from Elizabeth to her sister, written in the years prior to the Civil War. It then switches to the present when Finn is visiting his terminally ill brother Max in a hospice in New York. Following a phone call he races off to Chicago to because of a crisis with his ex-girlfriend Lily. They then undertake a really strange road trip. I appreciated Moore’s writing at the sentence level and her exploration of themes like love, life, family, grief and mental health. But overall this book was too absurdist for my taste and the three parts never satisfactorily came together. I wanted more Finn and Max.
 
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