Big thanks to Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley for including I am home. on this list.
I am home. on the Ultimate Fall Reading List 2023.
I am home. in the library.
Sweet news via Chez Soi Press. I love knowing I am home. will be on the shelf in the Iowa City Public Library, one of the many places where I worked on it.
I moved to Iowa City from Chicago with a first draft completed (started in Dubuque and written throughout the Midwest, Iceland, France, and Spain then completed in Chicago on a fine day in May, hours before I did a reading and presentation of Lucy, go see. at the wonderful 3rd Coast Café).
When I left Iowa City nine months later to move to Los Angeles, the fifth, or was it the sixth, or maybe the seventh? draft went with me. Anyway, there were more drafts to come until I finished it there on the Pacific with the Angels. And here I am with the fox in Barcelona. We made it this far home.
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P.S. – If you have wondered what Chez Soi means, it is French for At home. And it is pronounced shay-swa.
I am home. in Marco Island, Florida.
“I am well into the book now. It is so brilliant! I feel so many different emotions reading it and I love the bits of irony and humor you bring to the stories, along with the questions you raise.
Now that I know how important water was to the story, I am pleased that I made it my first book to read by this new pool we are going to after we work out.
I appreciate the way you have moved between the dramatic passages and the lighter, witty, thought-provoking chapters of the story….changing, variously, the time frame, the tone and the location. It gives the narrative an interesting momentum and energy that for me is very engaging.
I am savoring each chapter and each story like I don’t want it to end. I love the style of writing,
I ordered Lucy, go see. and it should arrive just in time so I can roll from one to the other. Congratulations on publishing this amazing book!”
I am home. with Lucy, go see.
Another from KK’s list of Scintillating Sentences. I like the way these two books call to each other, live with each other, are enriched by each other.
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I am home. in freedom.
“It’s really a book about freedom, about what it takes to live as a free-spirit in this world,” this reader wrote from Chicago.
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I am home. in the Pyrenees.
I am home. in beauty. “Is Iowa really that pretty?”
A view over the Mississippi at Dubuque, Iowa.
The Mines of Spain, Dubuque, Iowa
A lovely place to begin a new book. The backyard patio. July 2016. Rush Street, Dubuque, Iowa
Freshly picked snacks.
Inspiration from Norah Ephron the day before I began writing I am home.
I have gorgeous winter photos, too, but they are currently in storage in Iowa and I am in Barcelona.
A reader hosting her book club in Kansas next week with I am home. has known me since she was a toddler. When she sent me the club’s questions, she wrote, “You’re getting rave reviews. Someone in the book club asked me how you’re so positive after everything you’ve been through. She asked if Iowa is really that pretty. I told her it’s prettier than anyone gives it credit for. And I told her you have always seen beauty in everything and you make others appreciate things more, you have a gift. You have always been so good about living in the present and enjoying life.”
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Some people think I’m rich…
Another from KK’s Scintillating Sentences List.
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A question from home.
From KK’s list of Scintillating Sentences.
And here is one from my list of favorite songs by Robbie Robertson.
I am home. in great hands.
Montse “…loved the storyline, the way it was written and presented. Very easy to read, and you are hooked from the very first page!
Marianne’s writing is simply yummy, and extremely entertaining.
I thoroughly enjoyed every page of it and would highly recommend it to everyone.
I am home. is a must-read.”
Driving home.
I am writing about driving.
Alone.
On open roads.
Driving home, we always are.
Marianne Maili 