Book description
This is the Place is a collection of essays exploring home, from a diverse collection of writers. Home is a loaded word, and a complex idea for most of us: it's a place that can be safe, sentimental, difficult, nourishing, war-torn, or long-lost. It's a place to escape and a…
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I have lived in modest quarters all my life. I believe it would scramble my sense of self if I moved to an opulent, showy house. Home is identity; identity is home.
This is a collection of short memoir pieces by women about the concept of home. In these essays, women bring spouses, children, parents, pets, languages, plants, neighbors, and nature into their home worlds, seeking and sometimes finding comfort and peace. Or, feeling the lack of a home, they travel the world to look for one.
In a sense, this book is about all the searching women do just…
From Vikki's list on The best memoirs that show where we live shapes our sense of self.
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