Title: Tumble Home
Subtitle: A Novella and Short Stories
First published: 1997
Description: Tumble Home is narrated by people with skewed visions of home. Not exactly crazy, they become obsessed and irrational as their inner logic leads them astray. In the title novella, a woman living in a psychiatric halfway house writes to a man she has met only once. Proceeding in brief vignettes that link and illuminate, she recounts her peculiar life with the other patients.

The accretions of anecdote lead deeper and deeper into the psyche and history of the narrator, gradually revealing the reason for her urgent letter.
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author), New York Times reviewed, Short stories
LC classification: PS3558.E47916 T86 1997