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

dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

A strange, sad book this. Not at all what I expected. An interesting meditation on death and grief, with virtually no plot, beautiful prose but ultimately, too much decomposition for me to really enjoy - it just activated my body horror ick.

I really enjoyed the 19th century sections and would have liked more of those.

Desire, of course, on my part has been shooed away by the Lord. Though sometimes I think I see it, raggedy, out back among the mossy pavers, like a child cutting across yards to get to school. One sees a darting through the gum trees and hickories that have come back from the winter's scorching freeze. Oh, yes, I say to the darting thing, the fluff of a dandelion clock or a milkweed puff: I sort of remember you.

Also an excellent road trip narrative, decomposition aside.

Though they were moving forward down the moody road, the road seemed instead to be rushing toward them, so that they were like needles being threaded.
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