MOBILE HOME: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS was nominated for the 40th Annual Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction (2021) along with works by Rebecca Solnit, Kay Ryan, Joan Frank, and Elizabeth Tallent. In their nomination statement, the Northern California Book...
Booklist reviewer Courtney Eathorne wrote of MOBILE HOME (in a review posted in April 2021): “In this fascinating and lyrical memoir, Harlan examines the psychology of place by sharing her experiences as a child living in 17 different homes around the...
In The Missouri Review’s “Collected in 2020: Recent Essay and Story Collections of Note” (Winter 2020 issue), Samuel Pickering calls Mobile Home “personal and provocative” and writes, “Readers follow Harlan’s footsteps...
AWP 2021 Panel: At Home and Out of Place (Panelists: Anne Goldman, Megan Harlan, Patrick Madden, Angela Morales) What does it mean to feel at home in a place—in the mind, in a family, in the U.S., across the Americas, and across the seas? Many of us have at times felt...
The New York Times Book Review reviews MOBILE HOME (“Essays on Home, Culture, and Everything in Between” by Lori Soderlind): “Harlan and her family moved 17 times while she was a child, following her father’s work as an engineer across four...
