Draft and Revise, Explore and Invent: Gardening With a Rustbelt Feminist

In her debut essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist, Sherrie Flick shares in intimate detail her ongoing quest to determine where she belongs in the world, as a woman, as a sometimes nomad, and as a cook, gardener, and artist raised in a “no-bullshit steel town.” Flick’s voice is compassionate, thoughtful, and refreshingly honest throughout.

Beth Ann Fennelly writes, “At times elegiac, at times sassy… Flick’s essays transport us to the places where she finds her homes—b...