LORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Review Quotes:
"An exquisite exploration of grief, longing, and our relationship with the past . . . mixing comedy with tragedy, and exploring what it means to be alive." --Kristyn Kusek Lewis, Real Simple

"Moore's sterling literary reputation is anchored most firmly to her short stories, but in her long-awaited fourth novel, her prose is just as breathtakingly crystalline, her humor wily and piquant. . . . Moore's exhilarating dialogue is acrobatic, her descriptions ravishing. . . . A curious spin on Faulkner'sAs I Lay Dying, with frissons of George Saunders'sLincoln in the Bardo(2017), Moore's unnerving, gothic, acutely funny, lyrically metaphysical, and bittersweet tale is an audacious, mind-bending plunge into the mysteries of illness, aberration, death, grief, memory, and love."--Donna Seaman,Booklist(starred review)

"Moore is revered for her wit, and fans will not be disappointed by the novel's dark humor. The prose might be her finest."--Claire Messud,Harper's

"Moore has long been an expert at mood-setting, and the plot lines develop an uncanny resonance, Moore's fear of death, ghost stories and our inability to save people while managing to be, in a very Moore-ian way, weirdly funny."--Mark Athitakis,L.A. Times

"Thoughtful and witty. . . . The author's fans will love it, and those new to Moore will want to see what else they've been missing." --Publishers Weekly

"A wry, shape-shifting meditation on how we might continue to commune with the dead. . . . Both playful and poignant, this story of siblings and mental health slips the bonds of time and mortality. It bears Moore's s trademark psychological depth and humor. At the sentence level, the work is never less than a revelation."--Rebecca Foster,Shelf Awareness

"[Moore] manages the impossible in her writing: every other sentence is a gut-punch or the funniest line you've ever read, and it coheres into some of the truest writing about life--for what is life if not constantly either hilarious or devastating, and often both?I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Homeis a ghost story, a love story, a family elegy, and a search for answers both tangible and ephemeral: it's the world of Lorrie Moore, beckoning us back in."--LitHub, "Most Anticipated Books of 2023"

Publisher Marketing:
From "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (The New York Times)--a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things--seen and unseen.

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart

A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all...

With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay and singular wry humor and wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing and surprise as she writes about love and rebirth and the pull towards life. Bold, meditative, theatrical, this new novel is an inventive, poetic portrait of lovers and siblings as it questions the stories we have been told which may or may not be true.

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Hometakes us through a trap door, into a windswept, imagined journey to the tragic-comic landscape that is, unmistakably, the world of Lorrie Moore.

Review Citations:

• Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2023 pg. 2 (EAN 9780307594143, Hardcover)

• Booklist 04/01/2023 pg. 22 (EAN 9780307594143, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

• Publishers Weekly 04/24/2023 (EAN 9780307594143, Hardcover)

• Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023 (EAN 9780307594143, Hardcover)