Homing by Sherrie Flick
Homing is a feminist anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt, with essays braiding, unbraiding, and then tangling the story of the authors father with Andy Warhol, faith, labor, whiskey, and the authors compulsion to travel and reluctance to return home.-
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
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Local Wonders
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The Heart Folds Early
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The Perils of Girlhood
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Just Breathe Normally
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This Is not the Ivy League
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The Virgin of Prince Street
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Songs from the Black Chair
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Gang of One
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Jesse Jackson
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Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt
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Rare Good
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Island in the City
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The Solace of Stones
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American Lives
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Bigger Than Life
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And You Will Call It Fate
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Ravelings
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Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed
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Character Witness
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Tell Me About Your Bad Guys
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Thank You for Staying with Me
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Luisa Moreno
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In Rooms of Memory
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Shift
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This Fish Is Fowl
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It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know
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The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet
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Falling Room
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The Pat Boone Fan Club
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The Days Are Gods
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Searching for Tamsen Donner
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Weeds
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Hannah and the Mountain
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If This Were Fiction
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The Distance Between
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Should I Still Wish
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The Sound of Undoing
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Body Geographic
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Autumn Song
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Let Me Count the Ways
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Julia Ward Howe
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Out of Joint
“Homing is a book as generous and tender as it is fierce and funnyIn these essays, Sherrie Flick writes about place with a clear-eyed precision, but more impressive still is the care with which she renders other people, from her coworkers at a woman-owned bakery in New Hampshire to her Pittsburgh neighbors, both irascible and kind. This book is a gift.”—Sarah Viren, author of To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
“In Homing Sherrie Flick turns a clear eye on the dying mill towns of western Pennsylvania that launched her into a nomadic seeking where she found her way, her people, and her love of writing—before returning, full-circle, to Pennsylvania. At times elegiac, at times sassy, frequently funny, and always well written. Flick’s essays transport us to the places where she finds her homes—bakeries and classrooms and gardens and dive bars where ‘body language and working-class etiquette let her Rustbelt slip show’—and invites us to think about the homes we’ve left and lost and found and loved.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
“Flick is a great writer, often telling several stories at once, which means she does research, looks closely, and has a sure sense of time passing. And she’s eyes-wide-open honest with herself and us. Brilliant and analytical, grieving and powerful, these essays move with her soaring spirit. Read them!”—Hilda Raz, author of Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020
“In Homing Sherrie Flick turns a clear eye on the dying mill towns of western Pennsylvania that launched her into a nomadic seeking where she found her way, her people, and her love of writing—before returning, full-circle, to Pennsylvania. At times elegiac, at times sassy, frequently funny, and always well written. Flick’s essays transport us to the places where she finds her homes—bakeries and classrooms and gardens and dive bars where ‘body language and working-class etiquette let her Rustbelt slip show’—and invites us to think about the homes we’ve left and lost and found and loved.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
“Flick is a great writer, often telling several stories at once, which means she does research, looks closely, and has a sure sense of time passing. And she’s eyes-wide-open honest with herself and us. Brilliant and analytical, grieving and powerful, these essays move with her soaring spirit. Read them!”—Hilda Raz, author of Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020
Sherrie Flick is a senior lecturer in the MFA and food studies programs at Chatham University and a freelance writer and editor. She received a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. One of the essays in Homing, “All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts,” was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Flick is the author of Thank Your Lucky Stars: Short Stories; Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories; and Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel (Nebraska, 2009). She writes, works, and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781496238542 |
| ISBN 10 | 1496238540 |
| Title | Homing |
| Author | Sherrie Flick |
| Series | American Lives |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2024-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 178 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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