This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home

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Home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it's a place that can be comforting, difficult, nourishing, war-torn, or political. In this breathtaking, thought-provoking collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness, domestic violence, solitude, immigration, gentrification, geography, and more. Contributors--including Amanda Petrusich, Naomi Jackson, Jane Wong, and Jennifer Finney Boylan--lend a diverse range of voices to this subject that remains at the core of our national conversations. What makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to us to feel like we belong? Engaging, insightful, and full of hope, This is the Place will make you laugh, cry, and think hard about home, wherever you may find it.

Here / Kate Lebo --
Away from dangerous things / Desiree Cooper --
A family business / Jane Wong --
Freeing Thanksgiving from my family / Jennifer Finney Boylan --
Broken home / Debra Gwartney --
On moving home / Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum --
Between my teeth / Naomi Jackson --
Allá en la fuente / Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas --
Home in four acts / Akiko Busch --
Plane crash theory / Dani Shapiro --
Mother tongue / Jennifer De Leon --
The privilege button / Maya Jewell Zeller --
Some notes on our cyclical nature / Sarah Viren --
Subjunctive / Naima Coster --
Cold, comfort / Miranda Weiss --
Vesica piscis / Leigh Newman --
The explorer / Tara Conklin --
Annotating the first page of the first Navajo-English dictionary / Danielle Geller --
The stars remain / Claudia Castro Luna --
The leaving season / Kelly McMasters --
In the kitchen / Margot Kahn --
Of Pallu and Pottu / Hasanthika Sirisena --
Nuclear family / Amanda Petrusich --
Keeping my fossil fuel in the ground / Terry Tempest Williams --
Sea home / KaiLea Wallin --
Size matters / Sonya Chung --
The sound of horse teeth on hay in the snow / Pam Houston --
Undergraduate admissions essay draft / Elissa Washuta --
Inheritance / Elisabeth Eaves --
We carried ourselves like villagers / Catina Bacote