Feels like Home: Fond Remembrances in Words and Pictures

Photographic historian and researcher Moch has compiled hundreds of contemporary and vintage photos and literary passages that perfectly evoke the various emotions and images associated with "home." A lively introduction written by novelist Allan Gurganus looks at the meaning of home, from childhood times to the need for a place in old age.

Feels like home. That's what we say when we settle into our favorite armchair and draw up grandmother's handmade quilt. Home is the place where, when we are young, we feel safe and protected, where we sit down to family dinners at the kitchen table.

Home is the place we left to go to college or to war. When we struck out on our own, home was a room of our own, an apartment of our own, a house of our own. Home was - and is - the place where we are most ourselves, and the place where we most want to be.

FEELS LIKE HOME is a love song in words and pictures, evoking the warmth of the homes we grew up in and the longing for the homes of our dreams. More than one hundred vintage and contemporary photographs are collected here, alongside poignant and sometimes humorous reflections from our most beloved writers. Novelist Allan Gurganus provides a thought-provoking introduction to this elegant volume. In his essay, "Home in Time," Gurganus invites us into some of the homes of his childhood and reflects on the sometimes desperate meaning of the "homeplace" to southerners like himself.

FEELS LIKE HOME is the perfect gift for homesick friends and family, and, for yourself, a well-deserved homecoming.

Allan Gurganus’s first novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into twelve languages. His novel White People was the winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize and was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, and his short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the Paris Review and has been anthologized in the The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and New Stories from the South. He is a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.