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What makes a place home? Is it the memories that took place there? Does it require living there a certain amount of time? Is home where those you love reside? Or is it a feeling? In “Make Your Way ...

From metropolitan Austin to the North Carolina mountains, Carrie R. Moore's collection approaches Southern identity from a variety of angles.

Carrie R. Moore is interested in life’s most difficult decisions and most knotted relationships. Her debut short story collection, Make Your Way Home, out July 12 via Tin House, tells 11 tales set in ...

When I started receiving chemotherapy for stage 3B lung cancer, I initially felt hopeless. I felt a change in my outlook on life just a little bit at first. After a night of sleeplessness, vomiting ...

In the introduction of Parker Palmer’s 2009 book, “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, he tells a story that begins this way: “There was a time when farmers on the Great Plains, ...

After a day's work, many of us have almost automatic reflexes: we take off our shoes with relief... and sometimes, we do things we wouldn't necessarily admit to everyone. And yet, these somewhat ...

David Rodstein shares about why he misses California and his journey to return home. I was born and raised under the California sun, but have found myself living out-of-state, most recently in Seattle ...

"Make your way home," by Carrie R. Moore, Tin House, 336 pages What makes a place home? Is it the memories that took place there? Does it require living there a certain amount of time? Is home where ...