The following is an excerpt of the novel PAN by Michael Clune, which he read at our Cluny Journal event in Chicago, IL in April. PAN is available now from Penguin Press. Mom's house was far more exposed to impermanence than Chariot Courts, even including the dire prophetic open spaces of the neighbor.
Mom's house was far more exposed to impermanence than Chariot Courts, even including the dire prophetic open spaces of the neighbor. The idea that in returning to Mom's house I could be returning home was a satire. It was a satire on the very idea of home.
It was a satire on the very idea of home. Mom's house was like a theater in which my essential homelessness would be broadcast through every level of my being. Chariot Courts may not have been a home.