Homing

“Homing is a book as generous and tender as it is fierce and funny. In these essays, Sherrie Flick writes about place with a clear-eyed precision, but more impressive still is the care with which she renders other people, from her coworkers at a woman-owned bakery in New Hampshire to her Pittsburgh neighbors, both irascible and kind. This book is a gift.”—Sarah Viren, author of To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

“In Homing Sherrie Flick turns a clear eye on the dying mill towns of western Pennsylvania that launched her into a nomadic seeking where she found her way, her people, and her love of writing—before returning, full-circle, to Pennsylvania. At times elegiac, at times sassy, frequently funny, and always well written. Flick’s essays transport us to the places where she finds her homes—bakeries and classrooms and gardens and dive bars where ‘body language and working-class etiquette let her Rustbelt slip show’—and invites us to think about the homes we’ve left and lost and found and loved.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

“Flick is a great writer, often telling several stories at once, which means she does research, looks closely, and has a sure sense of time passing. And she’s eyes-wide-open honest with herself and us. Brilliant and analytical, grieving and powerful, these essays move with her soaring spirit. Read them!”—Hilda Raz, author of Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020