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Hello, how's it going out there? Welcome to the show. This is the Other People podcast. I am Brad Listy here in Los Angeles, California. It is good to be with you. I hope you're doing okay wherever you happen to be. Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast. Wherever you listen, you can also subscribe on YouTube, follow the show on social media,

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If you are new to the program, the Other People podcast has been around since 2011.

There are currently more than 840 episodes in the archive.

It is all accessible, available, listenable, in-depth interviews with writers.

Today on the program, my guest is Lori Moore, one of our most beloved and influential writers

of literary fiction. It's a great honor to have her on the show for the first time. She has a new

novel out called, I am homeless, if this is not my home. So the book that I wrote is really more

about the psychological aspects of dealing with grief, dealing with the possibility of an afterlife, the possibility of resurrection,

but it's not done in a religious way.

It's really done in an emotional and psychological way because primarily it's a love story

and the ghost story sort of, but it's about how difficult it is to let go of people you lose.

All right, that was Lori Moore.

Her new novel is called I Am Homeless, If This Is Not My Home, Available Now in Hardcover, from Knapp.

This is Lori's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs, which was published back in 2009.

I am homeless, if this is not my home, is a death-haunted novel, a book that deals in grief,

a metaphysical meditation on life and death, and the possibility of an afterlife. It is mythical. It is musical. It is operatic.

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