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The third literary anthology in the series that has been called "ambitious" ( O Magazine ) and "strikingly international" ( Boston Globe ), Freeman's: Home , continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers and literary luminaries alike.
As the refugee crisis continues to convulse whole swathes of the world and there are daily updates about the rise of homelessness in different parts of America, the idea and meaning of home is at the forefront of many people's minds. Viet Thanh Nguyen harks to an earlier age of displacement with a haunting piece of fiction about the middle passage made by those fleeing Vietnam after the war. Rabih Alameddine brings us back to the present, as he leaves his mother's Beirut apartment to connect with Syrian refugees who are building a semblance of normalcy, and even beauty, in the face of so much loss. Home can be a complicated place to claim, because of race--the everyday reality of which Danez Smith explores in a poem about a chance encounter at a bus stop--or because of other types of fraught history. In "Vacationland," Kerri Arsenault returns to her birthplace of Mexico, Maine, a paper mill boomtown turned ghost town, while Xiaolu Guo reflects on her childhood in a remote Chinese fishing village with grandparents who married across a cultural divide. Many readers and writers turn to literature to find a home: Leila Aboulela tells a story of obsession with a favorite author.
Also including Thom Jones, Emily Raboteau, Rawi Hage, Barry Lopez, Herta M#65533;ller, Amira Hass, and more--writers from around the world lend their voices to the theme and what it means to build, leave, return to, lose, and love a home.
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Writers from around the globe weigh in on the theme of home in this wide-ranging anthology from former Granta editor Freeman.Home "can be one place, or it can be many," Freeman writes in the introduction to this third issue of his anthology series. Indeed, many of the finest selections here tell tales of migration, some voluntary and some not. In Gregory Pardlo's wryly observed "Marine Boy," the author remembers himself at 18, when he leaves Willingboro, New Jersey"this town was beginning to harden around me like a final destination"for boot camp in South Carolina. A conservative Muslim woman's yearslong fascination with a famous writer spans continents in Leila Aboulela's masterful short story, "Pages of Fruit." Emily Raboteau paints a complicated, empathetic portrait of her Uganda-born mother-in-law, now living in Rosedale, Queens, in "The Curse." And in his poignant and timely essay, "Hope and Home," Rabih Alameddine tells of interviewing Syrian refugees while visiting his mother in Beirut. While many of these tales are about leaving one place for another, others focus on hometown life. Kerri Arsenault contrasts the storybook version of Maine"red lobsters, rocky beaches"with the reality of life in the blue-collar town of her youth; after her father retires from the paper mill there, he receives a toolbox, watch, "and asbestosis of the lungs." And in "Fishermen Always Eat Fish Eyes First," Xiaolu Guo recounts growing up under the care of her loving grandmother and mean-spirited grandfather in a fishing village by the East China Sea. Other highlights include essays by Edwidge Danticat and Nir Baram, fiction from Barry Lopez and Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, and the poetry of Danez Smith, Katie Ford, and others. A superb anthology: eclectic and thought-provoking. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
