I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Condition:Like New he knows he’ll be on

he knows he’ll be on his own

and a third is hit by a late-night taxi

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

Beaten daily and groomed to be a prostitute

in a world preparing for the Second World War

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Condition:Like New he knows he’ll be onLorrie 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