Imagining home

by Thom Tammaro

From Kathleen Norris's thoughts on being a member of a literary culture outside of where "place can stick to us in western South Dakota," to Jon Hassler's remembrances of the houses of his childhood, Imagining Home begins at the real places of the Midwest and finishes with the locales that fill a writer's memories and desires. Imagining Home centers on the premise that a sense of place is far more than a matter of geographical landscape, comprising instead a complex web of associations, human communities, history, spirituality, and memory. In untangling and reweaving these various strands,...

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