Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place

Place refers to geographical and constructed places—location, topography, landscape, and buildings. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. These elements act in concert to constitute a place.   Carlisle incorporates perspectives from writers like Edward S. In the end, after years of moving from place to place, Carlisle’s experience in Appalachia helped him rediscover his hometown—both the Old Delaware, where he grew up, and the New Delaware, a larger, thriving small city—as his true home. The people and places there enabled him to value hi

“Open, direct, economical, and vividly honest.” —Joseph A. Amato, author of Everyday Life: How the Ordinary Became Extraordinary