Issue 70 / Spring 2019
70 / Home
Finding our place in the world
In Creative Nonfiction #70: “Home,” we search for our place in the world. From Ohio to Oregon, from Browning, Montana, to the US-Mexico border, and from gated communities and “safe” suburbs to tight-knit urban neighborhoods, eleven restless writers ask whether home is a place or a state of mind; who belongs and who doesn’t; and why we stay and why we leave.
Plus, the difference between “story time” and “text time”; tiny truths; and more.
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What’s the Story #70
"Back in October, at the Creative Nonfiction office, we submitted a detailed letter of intent to a national foundation, proposing a project and a special themed issue. We waited"Inheritance
The ABC's of buying a house in rapidly gentrifying Portland, OregonFreedom
An Ohio gothicReservation Dogs
An “apple”—red on the outside, white on the inside—ages out of spending summers with his Blackfeet relativesImmortal Ogallala
In the Texas Panhandle, every season is drought seasonWhat’s in the Water
The walking fish are the least of itCrime Wave
You can learn a lot—maybe too much—from the neighborhood listservA Tourist at Home
It was a good neighborhood to grow up in, and then it wasn'tVisits to the Border
The line between the US and Mexico has always resisted easy definitionRooted
Eventually, your parents will have to downsize, and then what?Zero
She could only take what fit in a suitcase and a duffelLooking for Home
How to answer when your elderly father asks, “Where do you live now?”Movement and Flow
How writers manipulate the relationship between story time and text timeOff the Map
Eight places to discover yourself