Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore
Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award
Finalist for the 2026 Southern Book Prize
Longlisted for the 2026 PEN America Open Book Award
Named A Best Fiction Book of the Year by the Washington Post, ELLE, Chicago Review of Books
Named a Best Debut of 2025 by Debutiful
“Gorgeous, resonant, and startling.”―Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds
A debut collection of stories set across the American South, featuring characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories. How can you love where you come from, even when home doesn’t love you back?
- Sale Date
- ISBN
- 9781963108286
- Page Count
- 336
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 5½ x 8½
- Imprint
- Tin House
Meet the Author
Carrie R. MooreFinalist for the 2026 Southern Book Prize
Longlisted for the 2026 PEN America Open Book Award
Named A Best Fiction Book of the Year by the Washington Post, ELLE, Chicago Review of Books
Named a Best Debut of 2025 by Debutiful
“Gorgeous, resonant, and startling.”―Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds
A debut collection of stories set across the American South, featuring characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories. How can you love where you come from, even when home doesn’t love you back?
In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, Make Your Way Home follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have eluded them. A preteen pregnant alongside her mother refuses to let convention dictate who she names as the father of her child. Centuries after slavery separated his ancestors, a native Texan tries to win over the love of his life, despite the grip of a family curse. A young deaconess, who falls for a new church member, wonders what it means when God stops speaking to her. And at the very end of the South as we know it, two sisters seek to escape North to freedom, to promises of a more stable climate.
Artfully and precisely drawn, and steeped in place and history as it explores themes of belonging, inheritance, and deep intimacy, Carrie R. Moore’s debut collection announces an extraordinary new talent in American fiction, inviting us all to examine how the past shapes our present―and how our present choices will echo for years to come.
Praise for Make Your Way Home
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“Remarkable.... [an] intense focus on family ties, vivid Southern setting and confident narrative voice.”
Washington Post, Best Paperback in July -
“A gorgeously written standout debut.”—ELLE “There is a quiet grace and stunning confidence to these stories, which are all deeply rooted in place. . . . a gorgeous look at the making and meaning of home.”—Chicago Review of Books “Moody and evocative . . . These stories are thematically linked by the human connection to nature and provide an unforgettable dive into the resilience required to persevere through hardship and oppression.”
Atlanta Journal Constitution, A Top 10 Southern Book of 2025 -
“Moore’s talent is unmistakable.”
Ms. Magazine, Best Book of July
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