“Look what book traveled to Ochos Rios with me! It is so interesting to read about such an adventurous life. Marianne is an inspiration from modeling to writing to translating to teaching. She has seen and learned so much. There’s nothing she can’t do! I finished the book and loved every minute while I was reading it. It’s beautifully written. I cried and I laughed. I love page 136. I’m asking my book club to read this!”
I am home. in Katy’s #hammock #reading in #santperederibes #catalunya #spain . A perfect hammock read! #books #goodvibes #home #summerreading #beauty #wonder #joy #grief #inspiration #liveyourownlife #vulnerability #strength #life
This reader finds it a great read for starting a new chapter in life. “Enjoying your book, the moments are so real and surreal, like life.”
I am home. in #Colorado, waiting to be #read. #goodbook #home #bookstagram #book #books #beauty #love #grief #inspiration #moving #keepmoving #wonder #joy I am home. Chez Soi Press. 2023
Such a delight to hear from readers around the world upon reception of the book, where it is waiting for them, how they feel while and after reading. Thanks so much to you all.
If you’d like to send a photo and message you can send them to: welcomewonder@mariannemaili.com
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Chère Marianne,
J’ai fini la lecture de ton livre que j’ai beaucoup aimé pour différentes raisons.
It’s a real journey for the reader, who really gets to experience what the narrator feels and goes through.
It is full of sensations, sensations of nature, sensations of water, of light, sensations of the body
The narrator is very generous in sharing what she feels, her vulnerability, her strengths–
I felt close to the other characters, the son, the father, the mother. I liked her a lot, she is so special, with such a nice spirit, sense of humor. I was very moved and touched all through the reading and of course at the end. It made me think about my mother and I wanted to be as good as the narrator is, to her.
The relations with men are also very interesting.
Also, the fact that the son is a man too, and is going to be another kind of man because he had such a great mother.
I really liked what the narrator says about the wound, this passage where she shares her research/work is very interesting.
I would very much like to read the thesis! If there is a possibility to read it?
So, wouaw, reading this book, Marianne, made me experience a bit of your experience and helped me grow as well. It is really a good book, that gives strength–strength to be vulnerable, strength to be what you want to be in life, strength to be free.
#home in #La Rochelle, #France #goodbook #beauty #wonder#joy #grief #adventure #remembrance #moving #touching #travel #bookrecommendation
this message from author Astrid de Laage (https://www.grasset.fr/…/de-la-main-dune-femme…
I am home. resting between tastings amid beauty in a home overlooking a beloved American river in the Upper Mississippi Valley. #goodbooks #bookstagram #bookstoread #bookrecommendation #mississippi #riverlife #beauty #wonderful_places #joy #grief #adventure #travel #iowahomeland #iowa #france #spain #iceland #midwest #midweststories #worldstories #philosophy #love #barcelonalovers
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I am home. resting on an Iowa porch in June. This reader loved it and “immensely enjoyed ” the format. “I could read a few pages here and there and always come back to it and easily get back in.” She is a fan of page 7 among others. #goodbooktoread#booklover#bookstagram#book#bookbar#booklovers#bookrecommendations#booklove#truestory#iowa#france#iceland#barcelona#eros#voice#wound#beauty#wonder#joy#love#home#funny#rich#deep#intimate#inspiration#generosity#grief#sensuality I am home. Chez Soi Press. #2023 If you find it valuable please spread the word.
I am home. in Helsinki! with Paul who considers it a moving telling with piercing insights and even has a favorite sentence which is also one of mine. He loved the kaleidoscope format. Do you have a favorite sentence? #helsinki #goodbooktoread #greatbook #bookrecommendations #truestory #beauty #wonder #love #joy #sensuality #grief #finland #travel #adventure #home
I am home. in Paris with Patricia! The book opens in Paris 
Patricia finds the book #inspiring #lyrical and #poetic and enjoys the constant presence of nature in its pages. She honors it by calling this #remembrance a pastoral #masterpiece! Thank you @triciakilleen 
#bookrecommendations#greatbook#nonfiction#kaleidoscope#love#grief#beauty#wonder#joy#paris#france#reading#travel#home
“Friend and author Marianne Maili’s I am home. is a page-turner and inspirational in describing both her life and the accessible pleasures open to us all if we are mindful enough to accept life’s gifts sprinkled among its challenges. Her lyrical and poetic depictions of nature–constantly present on the pages–place Maili’s memoir among pastoral as well as memoir masterpieces. Her previous award-winning novel, Lucy, go see. is also a must-read.”
Available in hardcover and paperback wherever books are sold.
One paperback and one hardcover left on the shelf at River Lights Bookstore! More will arrive – but you can still walk in and get a copy today, I think– maybe call first. Remember phone calls?
River Lights Bookstore – 1098 Main Street – Dubuque, Iowa
I am home. is now available internationally for pre-order in hardcover and paperback in English everywhere books are sold. April 30th is the publication date. Just ask for it at my hometown favorite independent bookstore, River Lights in Dubuque, and other favorites like Prairie Lights in Iowa City, City of Asylum Books in Pittsburgh, Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago, Books and Books in Key West, Vromans in Pasadena, Book Soup in West Hollywood, Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes Station, Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, Boulder Bookstore in Boulder, Back of Beyond Books in Moab, Montana Book Company in Helena, Village Books and Paper Dreams in Lynden, William James Bookseller in Port Townshend, Vashon Bookshop on Vashon Island, Coalesce Bookstore in Morro Bay, Four-Eyed Frog Books in Gualala, Le nom de l’homme in Lagrasse, La Central and Laie in Barcelona, Shakespeare and Company in Paris, or your favorite bookseller–if they don’t have it in stock, they can order it for you. Or ask your local library to order a copy or more using the ISBN numbers listed below. Or order it online at Amazon and all the other places.
I am thrilled that it can move from my hands to yours!
The hardcover (ISBN – 978-0-9996631-7-2) contains color images (print, drawings, and photos) on white paper,
and the paperback (ISBN -978-0-9996631-4-1) contains all that in black and white on creme paper.
This beauty-filled book–written in so many beautiful places–explores what home means.
I hope it makes you feel glad to be alive.
It once had 432,000 words in it. Now there are 48,000.
The whole story is still there. In the end, there is so much we can leave unsaid, once we know what it is. It is a deep and light book, the brevity is best sipped slowly.
Here is what some folks have to say about it:
Maili’s uplifting text dances with elegant and fluid steps as it plays with form and forges its own-it is as much poetry as it is novel as it is remembrance. A composition of beautiful and poignant snapshots follows a sparkling and down-to-earth narrator as she returns to her hometown and engages friends, family, lovers, and herself in the events that lead to and from it. The movement and pace sweep readers near and far in place and back and forth in time without losing them or the focus on what it means to be home. Maili shares the deep pleasures open to all of us, which so many of us deny ourselves, and she does this through the painful experiences life also brings. This is the story’s power, and its structure is supported by and justifies the author’s choice to omit proper names-a namelessness that centers the work on transforming grief into beauty. It is one of the many ways Maili refuses to let the difficulty in the story darken it. And her humor is never far away.
In this moving account of loving, being, and becoming; and personhood, womanhood, and motherhood; grief is undeniable, but beauty wins.
-Reál Fillion, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Sudbury
In I am home. I hear a strong voice, a writer’s voice, all the way through. This novel-in-moments shows us someone who moves, spiritually and figuratively. I love Maili’s portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship and the book’s original narrative structure, the attractive way it travels in time and place, and the pleasant short chapters. Some of the shortest are real masterpieces.
-Dra. Marta Segarra, Research Professor (Directrice de recherche), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique- CNRS, Paris, France; Full Professor of French and Francophone Literatures and of Gender Studies
Maili’s I am home. is a crystal that refracts beauty, an imagistic prose poem about the act of turning heartbreak into love: love of place, people, and self. Artists will appreciate this painterly account of the turbulent years that lay behind the writing of her novel Lucy, go see.
-Terry Burns, Professor Emerita of English, researcher, writer, and translator of Renaissance alchemy and alchemical texts
The whole book encompasses a wideness of love, inviting reflections about a lot that most people don’t notice or pay attention to. I was enthralled with it and I love the way it moves in non-linear time and affirms that home is not where we are from and at the same time it is. The way Maili inspires readers’ reflections without offering them conclusions is remarkable. Another interesting aspect of the book is that it speaks to a wide audience of lay people and intellectuals. In the text, Maili tells of what she has come to see as “The American Years”. She shares her authentic self with the reader, exploring memory and forgiveness, the roles of women and men, parents and children, staying home or leaving, and how we live with and within ourselves. Her reflections are both universal and unique and while her perspective is that of someone who has traveled the world something remains that is “as American as apple pie”.
–Kirana Stover, Artist and Director of the Integral Yoga Center Barcelona Ribes
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