Lily, a therapeutic clown who struggles with depression, is in trouble. “I feel sorry for you, man,” his dying brother tells him.īefore Finn has done much for his brother besides getting the TV in his room tuned to the World Series, he gets a text. He can’t stop talking about his ex-girlfriend, Lily, who left him for another man one year before. He has developed the habit of seeing how the comments he leaves in the New York Times opinion section play to the commentariat, and then judging his sanity for the day by their reception. He’s been put on leave from his job for reasons he is cagey about. We can see immediately that Finn is not entirely well himself. Here goes: Finn is a high school history teacher visiting his dying brother in hospice care. There’s a central storyline, sort of, but summarizing that doesn’t quite get at what the experience of reading this weird, funny, tender, and occasionally gross book is like. This is a novel made out of air, unstructured, unskeletoned. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, the latest novel from beloved short-story writer Lorrie Moore, resists analysis.
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