Thursday Night Book Club

VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON MEETING

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

In the fall of 2016, a high-school history teacher named Finn is visiting his brother Max, who is dying of late-stage cancer when he gets a phone call and back to Illinois to take an absurd road trip with the ghost of his recently-deceased ex-girlfriend Lily, a depressive therapy clown who took her own life. As he transports her vividly decomposing body to a "body farm" in Kentucky, the narrative blurs the line between the living and the dead and between reality and delirium, Moore’s 2023 novel won the National Books Critics Circle Award.

Moderated by Readers Advisory Librarian Cindy Haiken. For details about meeting virtually or in-person, contact Cindy Haiken at chaiken@wallingfordlibrary.org.