I am home. on Fire Hill in Wisconsin.

This reader wrote: “Finished on Fire Hill overlooking Lake Superior. I love the style in which it is written–poetic and lyrical and very soothing. I love how you gave us few words sometimes and let us think about the situation. You put words together in the most beautiful way! Here’s to the success of your book! I just ordered another copy for a gift–”

It means much to me to read that the book is soothing. That was a goal of the revision–to highlight the beauty of life and make folks glad to be living it. As I have written before, boiling down a 432,000-word first draft to 48,000 words of essence is an exercise in pertinence and poetry. How to make life sing? Each reader creates a new book when filling the white spaces on the page with their thoughts, imagination, memories, and experience. I am home., now everywhere with everyone, becoming more. (and Wisconsin is on these pages, too)

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I am home. in Paris.

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.”

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