"These lyrical essays explore what it means to leave a place where one has deep familial roots and to travel far and wide, geographically and culturally, without ever escaping the pull of home and its mysteries, richness, and sadness."—Zoe Zolbrod, author of "The Telling: A Memoir" // "In thirteen essays spanning forty years, McElmurray leads us in both travel and homegoing, moving backward and forward in time, memory, despair, discovery, and hard truths."—Southern Literary Review