I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Condition:Like New Beaten daily and groomed to

Beaten daily and groomed to be a prostitute

shops and offices

but keeping our eyes on the one and only giant-slayer—Jesus

in a world preparing for the Second World War

Florentino Ariza had a half century of waiting to fill before a chance to redeclare his love for Fermina Daze comes

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Condition:Like New Beaten daily and groomed toLorrie Moores first novel since A Gate at the Stairs a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart. A ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all thingsseen and unseen. A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A