“Harlan and her family moved 17 times while she was a child, following her father’s work as an engineer across four continents. Impermanence defined her early life, and is a resonant ache in this linked-essay memoir. Her meditations on the meaning of places, houses and homes are rooted in her nomadic experience, if nomadism can be said to root anything…Perhaps, these essays suggest, home is after all the place that is ours—whoever and wherever we find ourselves to be.”
(Print Edition 12/20/2020; online 11/17/2020)
