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Homing is a feminist anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt, with essays braiding, unbraiding, and then tangling the story of the author’s father with Andy Warhol, faith, labor, whiskey, and the author’s compulsion to travel and reluctance to return home.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Laboring Through
The Worst Possible Offense
Faith in Movement
Bank Shot
Calling Me Out
Talk Right
Finding Home
Rebel, Rebel
All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts
Cultivation
Jade Plant
Caretaker, Murderer, Undertaker
Instincts
Source Acknowledgments
About the author
Sherrie Flick is a senior lecturer in the MFA and food studies programs at Chatham University and a freelance writer and editor. She received a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. One of the essays in
Homing, “All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts,” was listed as notable in
The Best American Essays 2023. Flick is the author of
Thank Your Lucky Stars: Short Stories;
Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories; and
Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel (Nebraska, 2009). She writes, works, and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Summary
Homing is a feminist anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt, with essays braiding, unbraiding, and then tangling the story of the author’s father with Andy Warhol, faith, labor, whiskey, and the author’s compulsion to travel and reluctance to return home.
