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MAKE YOUR WAY HOME

Carrie Moore

In these stories that span from the Florida marshes to the North Carolina mountains, Black men and women maintain tight grips on 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. A grandmother grapples with her own childhood survival from the KKK, who have resurfaced during 2017's Charlottesville rally. And at the very end of the South as we know it, two sisters try to escape North to freedom, to promises of a more stable climate. These stories, and others, consider what it means to come from a place fraught with painful historyand to call it home, despite its horrors. (There will be three more which are not included in this pdf).

Carrie R. Moore's fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, For Harriet, The Southern Review, and other publications. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Community of Writers, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies. She earned her MFA in Fiction at the Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature and served as Fiction Editor of Bat City Review.
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Published 2025-07-15 by Tin House

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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, Make Your Way Home 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, Make Your Way Home is an extraordinary and luminous debut by a singular talent.

Each story in Carrie R. Moore's Make Your Way Home is remarkable, gorgeously written, complicated, deep, continually surprisingand 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.

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. Make Your Way Home is a deeply satisfying, glorious debut.