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Halfway from Home: Essays
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781952897252
Publisher: Split/Lip Press
Published: Sep 19 2022
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Simultaneously beautiful and tragic, nostalgic and despondent...Brilliant. -Kirkus Reviews
Insights, discovery, longing and revelation that is rooted in archaeology, geology, and the world of nature . . . one of the most compelling collections this year. -Midwest Book Review
Every page contains stunning details, often rendered in sensuous language...An accomplished collection of thoughtful meditations on home, nature, and family. -Suzanne Kamata, Foreword Reviews
An intimate poetic excavation of the search for meaning in a life on a planet that's burning. -Joe Walters, Independent Book ReviewWhen she left a chaotic home at eighteen, Sarah Fawn Montgomery chased restlessness, claiming places on the West Coast, Midwest, and East Coast, while determined never to settle. But it is difficult to move forward when she longs for the past. Now her family is ravaged by addiction, illness, and poverty; the country is increasingly divided; and the natural worlds in which she seeks solace are under siege by wildfire, tornados, and unrelenting storms. Turning to nostalgia as a way to grieve a rapidly-changing world, Montgomery excavates the stories and scars we bury, unearthing literal and metaphorical childhood time capsules and treasures.
Blending lyric memoir with lamenting cultural critique, Montgomery examines contemporary longing and desire, sorrow and ache, searching for how to build a home when human connection is disappearing, and how to live meaningfully when our sense of self is uncertain in a fractured world. Taking readers from the tide pools and monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled forests of Massachusetts, Montgomery holds a mirror up to America and asks us to reflect on our past before we run out of time to save our future. Halfway from Home grieves a vanishing world while offering-amidst emotional and environmental collapse-ways to discover hope, healing, and home.
Intensely intimate, the brilliant essays in Halfway from Home offer a deep dive into the vagaries of family and time.
-Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire
Montgomery has written a gorgeous, deeply felt ode to the search for belonging, to the deeply human act of seeking to find a place we might call our own.
-Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland
Sarah Fawn Montgomery writes with the finely moderated combination of generous vulnerability and searing intellect as she ventures with lyric intensity into the subject of climate change and its intersection with race, gender, political and social policy, and family. Halfway from Home is a work of urgency, sensibility, and immediacy.
-Kwame Dawes, editor of Prairie Schooner
In Halfway from Home, Montgomery brilliantly folds self into place, making it clear that the two cannot be separated. Montgomery's longing for a better place burns with a kind of brilliance only someone with such profound insight can set alight.
-Nicole Walker, author of Sustainability: A Love Story
Sarah Fawn Montgomery generates an inviting and invigorating space for readers to experience her experiences, think with her through tantalizing ideas, feel nostalgia for a life that is not their own.
-Patrick Madden, author of Disparates
Halfway from Home is like the 'treasure hole' of Sarah Fawn Montgomery's childhood-wondrous, surprising, crafted with generosity and care-a bounty born of deep excavation, as well as a deep connection with the earth itself.
-Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis
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