
Homing
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Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the steel industry, returned to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, witnessing the region's before and its after.
With essays braiding, unbraiding, and then tangling the story of the author's father with Andy Warhol, faith, dialect, labor, whiskey, Pittsburgh's South Side Slopes neighborhood, grief, gardening, the author's compulsion to travel, and her reluctance to return home, Flick examines how place shaped her experiences of sexism and feminism. She also looks at the changing food and art cultures and the unique geography that has historically kept this weird hilly place isolated from trendy change.
Carefully researched, deeply personal, and politically grounded in place and identity, Homing is an explicitly feminist and anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt.
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"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 & 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, 1986-2020More details
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Person
Content
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
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