Dear Peach: big city ambition, rejection obsession, and escaping waifhood
by Eliza McLamb
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Dear Peach: big city ambition, rejection obsession, and escaping waifhood
sari added
- Reconceptualized in this way, “home” is untethered from land, family, and lineage. It is siphoned off from the liberal fetish of homeownership — that quintessential image, derived from a short-lived American postwar prosperity, of a picket-fenced house with parents, kids, car, dog. Of course, the feeling of home is not a substitute for actual shelt... See more
from Inside Voice - Real Life by Hyejoo Lee
Keely Adler added
I think of the go bag next to my bed and how easy it would be to drop out, skip town, even skip the country. But this is my home now, and I’ve spent two years building this life, settling into its rhythms. I’m tired of moving, tired of searching for a landing spot. This is it. This is where the wandering stops.
from The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen
