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03562aam a2200397 i 4500 001 C14148B6840811E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 180221t20182018oru s000 edeng 010 $a 2018002728 020 $a 0870719181 020 $a 9780870719189 035 $a (OCoLC)1007077160 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ORE $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 00 $a PS3613.O6655 $b A6 2018 082 00 $a 814/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Morales, Dionisia, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018010050 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 10 $a Homing instincts / $c Dionisia Morales. 264 1 $a Corvallis : $b Oregon State University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a ix, 155 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "As a native New Yorker who now calls Oregon home, Dionisia Morales knows how moving and resettling can spark an identity crisis relative to geography, family, and tradition. The essays collected in Homing Instincts explore how Morales's conception of home plays out in her daily life, as she navigates the gap between where she is and the stories she tells herself about where she belongs. Although Morales migrated from one North American coast to another, the questions she raises are relevant to migrations of any scale and place, whether across town or around the world. What does it mean to be a newcomer? Who has the right to claim a sense of place? What is gained or lost when we try to fit in? In a world where people are migrating more than ever for social, economic, personal, and political reasons, these questions take on a new urgency. A wife and mother as well as a professional writer and editor, Morales writes with grace and resolve about a broad range of topics, including pregnancy, people watching, rock climbing, and bee colony collapse. She channels a spirit of adventure and adaptability while acknowledging how certain habits and mindsets are indelibly ingrained and are--like it or not--forever part of where, what, and who we call home. As issues of migration and social integration play out in national and international politics, Morales provides a personal lens through which readers can appreciate that at one time or another we have all been in the process of arriving. Homing Instincts is a remarkable debut from a gifted prose stylist. It will be warmly received by lovers of the essay form and anyone who has sought, or still seeks, a place to call home"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A collection of essays exploring the concepts of moving and resettling, belonging to a place, migrating and being a newcomer"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Morales, Dionisia. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018010043 600 10 $a Morales, Dionisia $x Homes and haunts. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113608 650 0 $a Home. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96023937 650 0 $a Migration, Internal $z United States. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107776 650 0 $a Place attachment. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007001724 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064151 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116062421.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C14148B6840811E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search