“I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home” is a weird and wonderful novel
“Everyone at some point in their lives should have a long great love affair with a magnificent lunatic,” Finn declares in “I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home”, Lorrie Moore’s weird and beautifully idiosyncratic new novel, her first since 2009. Running to only around 200 pages, this deceptively slim volume packs a wallop. It’s not just that the book ponders weighty themes, such as love, death, suicide and the meaning of life.
Does Finn actually spot Lily wandering around in her filthy shrouds and clown shoes in the cemetery where she had been buried, pulling stink bugs from her sleeve and smelling vaguely of rot? “I suppose I’m death-adjacent,” she explains to him. Do they in fact take a long drive together to what will be her final resting place, discussing their fraught love and many trials? Stretches of the book have a hallucinogenic quality, disorienting and unreal.
It is not entirely clear what relationship Finn’s story has with a series of interspersed letters from the mistress of a 19th-century boarding-house, except that these missives are written to a beloved sister who also happens to be dead. Perhaps life is always haunted by past loves, past wounds, old memories barely remembered, and perhaps these are all essential parts of it. As Finn observes: “No longer caring about a thing was key to both living and dying. So was caring about a thing.
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