I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME, by Lorrie Moore (Faber, $32.99)
Lorrie Moore is an American literary icon, her name often included alongside Alice Munro, Mary Gaitskill, Tessa Hadley and Joy Williams as contemporary masters of the short story written in English. In books such as her debut, 1985’s Self-Help, and the 1994 novel her unique literary voice was regaled for its mordant wit, acute observation, character complexity and metaphorical brilliance. Every one of her stories has the emotional breadth and sustained imaginative bravura of a novel, most capturing confident, ambitious young women at life’s crossroads, struggling with unforeseen challenges and yet still engaging in clever banter.
