I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: A Novel

"Earlier in the year, Lorrie Moore triumphed in the fiction category at the National Book Critics Circle Awards for her latest novel I Am Homeless If This is Not My Home , a novel in which a grieving man embarks on a cross-country road trip with the decaying body of his dead lover. It has all the snappy humour and melancholy that we’ve come to expect from Moore. (Perhaps this gives gives me an excuse to direct you to her devastating and darkly witty 1997 story, set in a children’s hospital, ‘People Like That Are the Only People Here’ ?) Generally, the National Book Critics Circle Awards shortlists serve as a kind of bellwether of American critical opinion, and are therefore an excellent source of reading tips."