{"product_id":"make-your-way-home-isbn-9781963108286","title":"Make Your Way Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2026 PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2026 Southern Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2026 PEN America Open Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed A Best Fiction Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post, ELLE, Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Debut of 2025 by Debutiful\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Gorgeous, resonant, and startling.”―Lauren Groff, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA debut collection of stories set across the American South, featuring characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories. How can you love where you come from, even when home doesn’t love you back?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, \u003ci\u003eMake Your Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have eluded them. A preteen pregnant alongside her mother refuses to let convention dictate who she names as the father of her child. Centuries after slavery separated his ancestors, a native Texan tries to win over the love of his life, despite the grip of a family curse. A young deaconess, who falls for a new church member, wonders what it means when God stops speaking to her. And at the very end of the South as we know it, two sisters seek to escape North to freedom, to promises of a more stable climate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtfully and precisely drawn, and steeped in place and history as it explores themes of belonging, inheritance, and deep intimacy, Carrie R. Moore’s debut collection announces an extraordinary new talent in American fiction, inviting us all to examine how the past shapes our present―and how our present choices will echo for years to come.\"Remarkable.... [an] intense focus on family ties, vivid Southern setting and confident narrative voice.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Paperback in July\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A gorgeously written standout debut.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eELLE \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e “There is a quiet grace and stunning confidence to these stories, which are all deeply rooted in place. . . . a gorgeous look at the making and meaning of home.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Review of Books \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Moody and evocative . . . These stories are thematically linked by the human connection to nature and provide an unforgettable dive into the resilience required to persevere through hardship and oppression.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e, A Top 10 Southern Book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Moore’s talent is unmistakable.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of July\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Compelling…. The settings of Moore’s stories act as characters in their own right, their tangled pasts forming the backdrop for daily living.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAustin Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An intimate, meticulously crafted, and tenderly rendered tour through the lives of Black women, men, and children seeking solid ground in a mercurial American southland….A regional relief map of the human heart.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Moore masterfully captures the intergenerational experiences of Black men, women, and families, weaving tales of resistance, connection, and self-discovery. With compassion and depth, she explores the tension between longing for home and finding freedom elsewhere. A stunning debut by a writer whose voice is both vital and unforgettable.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poetic…. Permeating these eleven expertly told stories of contemporary Black life in the American Deep South is a cautious optimism that acknowledges the damages of the past.\"—\u003cb\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her spectacular debut collection,\u003ci\u003e Make Your Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e, encompasses much more than just keen attention to place. The Black men, women, and families orbiting these stories are reckoning with generational inheritance and trauma, romantic and erotic love, ideas of faith and freedom.\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Transportive…. the author impresses with her meticulous research…. This solid collection has much to admire.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e?Moore tenderly writes with the precision of a surgeon’s tool, marking out the cleanest of cuts, opening the reader to redefine the capabilities and realities of these characters' homes and of our own.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClarion Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Black Book of Summer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carrie R. Moore’s stories are gorgeous, resonant, and startling. It’s rare for a new writer to have such profound emotional wisdom; in Make Your Way Home, a single small ripple in a character’s interior life can build strength to become a huge wave that crashes over them. What a thrilling new talent, and what a beautiful collection of short stories.\"—\u003cb\u003eLauren Groff, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each story in Carrie R. Moore’s \u003ci\u003eMake Your Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e is remarkable, gorgeously written, complicated, deep, continually surprising—and each a page turner, too, propulsive and heartbreaking in all directions. Her characters are so real you come to know them, body and soul. Make Your Way Home is a collection that is much more than the considerable sum of its beautiful parts. It is a book that has the force of life itself, all its hurts and love and betrayal, the little intimacies, terrible mistakes, reconciliations, moments of transcendence, the ways we can and cannot change. It is an astonishing debut.\"—\u003cb\u003eElizabeth McCracken, author of\u003ci\u003e The Hero of This Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carrie R. Moore’s arresting Southern stories pulse with the kind of intimacy, beauty, and intensity that the best art conjures. Her characters and their voices linger and arouse, long after their final moments on the page. \u003ci\u003eMake Your Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply satisfying, glorious debut.\" —\u003cb\u003eDeesha Philyaw, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With pitch-perfect attention to place, belonging, and the reverberations of history through several generations of Black men, women, and families in the American South, \u003ci\u003eMake Your Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection that moved me to my core. Carrie R. Moore conjures the complicated longing for home and connection with nuance, compassion, and grace. In the story 'The Happy Land,' our protagonist maintains, 'It was nearly impossible to have everything you wanted in one place, at one time, prolonged.' This book is a fervent exploration of this impossibility, giving space to the desire for true belonging and abundance from which this search takes root. A powerful meditation on ancestral inheritance and contemporary love, \u003ci\u003eMake Your Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary and luminous debut by a singular talent.\" —\u003cb\u003eMegan Kamalei Kakimoto, author of\u003ci\u003e Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarrie R. Moore’s\u003c\/b\u003e fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Sewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review,\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. A recipient of the Keene Prize and the inaugural writer-in-residence at the Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat, she earned her MFA at the Michener Center for Writers. 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