Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist by Flick, Sherrie

Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist

Shortlisted for the 2025 Book of the Year Award from Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia Homing: Instincts...
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Author: Sherrie Flick
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Language: English
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Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist by Flick, Sherrie

Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist

$30.81

Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist

$30.81
Author: Sherrie Flick
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Shortlisted for the 2025 Book of the Year Award from Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia

Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the steel industry, returned to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, witnessing the region's before and its after.

With essays braiding, unbraiding, and then tangling the story of the author's father with Andy Warhol, faith, dialect, labor, whiskey, Pittsburgh's South Side Slopes neighborhood, grief, gardening, the author's compulsion to travel, and her reluctance to return home, Flick examines how place shaped her experiences of sexism and feminism. She also looks at the changing food and art cultures and the unique geography that has historically kept this weird hilly place isolated from trendy change.

Carefully researched, deeply personal, and politically grounded in place and identity, Homing is an explicitly feminist and anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt.

Author: Sherrie Flick
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/2024
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781496238542


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/02/2024 pg. 1

About the Author
Sherrie Flick is a senior lecturer in the MFA and food studies programs at Chatham University and a freelance writer and editor. She received a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. One of the essays in Homing, "All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts," was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Flick is the author of Thank Your Lucky Stars: Short Stories; Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories; and Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel (Nebraska, 2009). She writes, works, and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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