Almost Home: Cities And Other Places

This word, home. So easy to say, so casually said every day. Why then is home so hard to see, the way you see other places you visit for a week or two? What do a medieval city in South India and Washington D.C. have in common? What do people in Kashmir dream of when they talk about freedom? Whom does Delhi, city of showy monuments and hidden slums, actually belong to? Most of all, what makes a city, or any place, home? From Delhi, Bombay and Ooty to Palestine, Algeria and eleventh-century Cordoba, these intricately carved essays explore cities and other places through the lives of people and the defining moments which change their home, or their idea of home and belonging. The result is a fascinating and layered story of a sense of home, too many homes, broken or lost homes.