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The Place I Call Home by Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Place I Call Home about?

Poetry. The place that Maria Mazziotti Gillan calls home is a universal haven built of enduring memories and peopled by loving family. In Gillan's newest book of poetry, THE PLACE I CALL HOME, we share her complex emotions of an immigrant childhood in Paterson, New Jersey, in the 1950s, her long marriage, her husband's devastating illness, and her subsequent widowhood. Yet, we also share the sheltering family in which she grew up, the deep love binding her and her husband, the unfolding of her life as a mother and grandmother, and, most of all, her resilient spirit. She reminds us that even when the bud of youthful navet flowers into the reality of an uncaring universe, we are home again when we recall the protection we felt within the warm sanctuary of family. These poems are beautiful crystalline narratives, sometimes exuberant and sometimes poignant, but always unflinchingly true. "THE PLACE I CALL HOME by Maria Mazziotti Gillan contains some of the most honest poems about marriage and family a reader is likely ever to come across. The craft is there, the well chosen word or phrase, but the power of these poems comes also from the truth in them that is moving and rare."Marge Pie

Who reads The Place I Call Home?

Author

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Publisher

New York: NYQ Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781935520672

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.57 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14