Mobile Home
A Memoir in Essays
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Mobile Home
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Narrated by:
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Karen White
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By:
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Megan Harlan
Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family's extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan's globe-wandering childhood - during which she lived in 17 homes across four continents, ranging in location from the Alaskan tundra to a Colombian jungle, a posh flat in London to a doublewide trailer near the Arabian Gulf - Mobile Home maps the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home.
In 10 interconnected essays, Harlan examines cultural histories that include Bedouin nomadic traditions and modern life in wheeled mobile homes, the psychology of motels and suburban tract housing, and the lived meanings within the built landscapes of Manhattan, Stonehenge, and the Winchester Mystery House. More personally, she traces the family histories that drove her parents to seek so many new horizons - and how those places shaped her upbringing.
Her memoir in essays skillfully explores the flexible, continually inventive natures of place, family, and home.
©2020 Megan Harlan (P)2020 Tantor