I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home
by Lorrie Moore
National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) · 2023 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)Fiction | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
A man visits his dying sister while his dead girlfriend, Lily, reappears in his life. Alternating with a 19th-century innkeeper's journal, the novel is funny, uncanny, and devastating—a meditation on death, America, and love. Winner of the NBCC Fiction Award.
About the Author
Lorrie Moore is an American novelist and short story writer born in Glens Falls, New York in 1957. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2023 for *I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home*, a haunting, genre-defying novel involving a dying woman, a Civil War-era innkeeper's journal, and a decaying contemporary America. She is a professor at Vanderbilt University and is widely admired for her darkly comic voice.
