How the States Got Their Shapes TC_Bestseller Homesick for Another World is

Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel

Magic emanates from every exquisitely crafted sentence

and offers an intimate

discourses telling her that her happiness was directly tied to her physical appearance were the problem

living through the explosion and implosion of Nirvana

How the States Got Their Shapes TC_Bestseller Homesick for Another World isNew York Times Bestseller "Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas." Wall Street Journal Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the odditiesthe entire state of Maryland(!)have become so ingrained that our map might