Review from Robert Root

In these essays of place, Anne-Marie Oomen—poet, playwright, performer, teacher, memoirist—turns experience in her prose like a precious jewel, polishing every facet. With penetrating insight, generous warmth, and keen attention to the lilt and heft of language, she transforms each locale she occupies into a place that inhabits the reader.

— Robert Root, author of Following Isabella, editor of Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place