Feeling My Way Home

[Article by Alice published on SmexyBooks]

Where is home for you? Are you happy there?

Over the two years I wrote The Infinite Onion, I thought a lot about Home with a capital H, wondering if a deep feeling of Home would be possible for me after living in eighty places in three countries. I felt homeless in a conceptual way, and longed for an easy answer to my dilemma of where to settle, where to put down roots for good.

Storytelling, especially the long form of a novel, allows me to explore extremes to a degree I can’t in real life. In The Infinite Onion, I considered the extremes of home/no home. One of the main characters, Grant Eastbrook, becomes homeless after losing his job. The other main character, Oliver Rossi, has always […]

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Alice Archer is the author of the literary romance novels Everyday History and The Infinite Onion. You can subscribe to her newsletter to receive a free story, notification of new articles and books, and more. She also writes nonfiction for quiet people as author Grace Kerina.

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