MOBILE HOME
A Memoir in Essays
By Megan Harlan
Winner of the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction
Winner of the Independent Book Publisher Award Gold Medal in Creative Nonfiction
Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction, Finalist
Published by the University of Georgia Press (9/15/2020)
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
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“Fascinating and lyrical memoir…”
“Impermanence…is a resonant ache in this linked-essay memoir.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“In 10 graceful essays, award-winning poet, essayist, and editor Harlan recounts her singularly nomadic childhood…Sharply observed forays into the mazes of the past.”
“Mobile Home combines the lyric, the factual, and the dramatic in a prose style that is both hugely enjoyable and deeply moving.”
—2021 Northern California Book Awards
“Readers follow Harlan’s footsteps and…discover traces of themselves, something good books foster. Such books exhilarate by awakening the personal, leading one to appreciate and understand.”
—Samuel Pickering, The Missouri Review
“The essays in Mobile Home are lyrical and big-hearted and thoughtful…Harlan’s nuanced take has much in common with essays by Jo Ann Beard, Annie Dillard or Maggie Nelson.”
MEGAN HARLAN is an award-winning writer, essayist, and author of two books. Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020) won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Independent Book Publisher Award Gold Medal for Creative Nonfiction, and was critically acclaimed in The New York Times, Kirkus, Booklist, and elsewhere. Her first book, Mapmaking, won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and was called “a miracle of invention” by Alice Fulton. Her writing has won the Arts & Letters Prize for Creative Nonfiction, been cited as distinguished in Best American Essays 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2023, and appeared in AGNI, Hotel Amerika, Crazyhorse, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, and Colorado Review, among other journals. Megan lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brittany, France.
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