I am homeless if this is not my home

Finn is in the grip of middle-age and on an enforced break from work: it might be that he´s too emotional to teach history now. He is living in an America hurtling headlong into hysteria, after all. ´America´s first lady of darkness and mirth´ Guardian´How lucky we are that we have Lorrie Moore´s voice to reflect this lunatic world back to us and show us how to see it in all its devastating hilarity.´ Lauren GroffFrom one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore´s new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. High up in a New York City hospice, he sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from one world into the next. But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality. It will prompt a questioning of life and death, grief and the past, comedy and tragedy, and the diaphanous separations that lie between them all. ´That Moore publishes so rarely is a gift in itself, because it compels you to read her over and over. . . Moore´s a writer you don´t quit.´ Guardian.