Personal Name:
Freeman, John, 1974- editor.
Physical Description305 pages, [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm
Note:"Est. 2015."
Note:Introduction / John Freeman -- Six shorts / Thom Jones ; Kay Ryan ; Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; Rawi Hage ; Stuart Dybek ; Benjamin Markovits -- Vacationland / Kerri Arsenault -- Alipasino / Adisa Basic -- Fishermen always eat fish eyes first / Xiaolu Guo -- The committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Hope and Home / Rabih Alameddine -- what was said on the bus stop / Danez Smith -- Germany and its exiles / Herta Mller -- All the home you've got / Edwidge Danticat -- A land without borders / Nir Baram -- Pages of fruit / Leila Aboulela -- Home, the real thing of an image / Velibor Bozovic -- The San Joaquin / Barry Lopez -- What more is there to say? / Lawrence Joseph -- Stone Houses / Amira Hass -- The sound of hemon / Aleksandar Hemon -- A natural / Ross Raisin -- Marine boy / Gregory Pardlo -- The curse / Emily Raboteau -- Being here / Marie Darrieussecq -- #21 / Katie Ford -- The red house / Kjell Askildsen -- E. a hymn bracing for the end / Adonis -- On winning the Melbourne Prize, 11 November 2009 / Gerald Murnane -- Contributor notes.
Note:"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
