Megan Harlan, "Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

New Books in Literature · Nov 13, 2020 · 28m

Home is the place many of us have spent our days for the last eight months. During the pandemic, our homes have become our workplaces, our classrooms, and our social spaces through apps like Zoom. But no matter what we do in our homes, for many of us, the notion of a home is fixed, tied just as much to a specific place as it is to our identities—both how we understand who we are, and the ways we communicate that self to the world. Whether our country, our region, or our city, when asked where we come from, most of us will respond with a definitive answer: This is the place I call my home. But…