Everything you need to understand or teach I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore.
In Lorrie Moore's novel I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Eliza's and Finn's storylines intersect and overlap throughout. While Eliza is struggling to run a boardinghouse in Tennessee during the Reconstruction Era, Finn is struggling to let go of his dying brother and ex-girlfriend Lily in 2016 New York. Throughout the novel, Eliza's and Finn's narratives live in parallel to one another. Their formal proximity and disparate points of view inspire complex thematic explorations of death, love, and the past.