“Make your way home,” by Carrie R. Moore, Tin House, 336 pages
What makes a place home? Is it the memories that took place there? Does it require living there a certain amount of time? Is home where those you love reside? Or is it a feeling?
In “Make Your Way Home,” a debut collection of short stories by Carrie R. Moore, the author explores the concept of home through a kaleidoscope of stories set across the American South, including New Orleans and Mississippi near the Gulf. In one, a man tries to win over the love of his life despite a family curse. Another, written in the second person, follows a lifeguard in Alabama. In Florida, a young woman is pregnant at the same time as her mother, and the young woman is navigating conflict with her mom over next steps…