This is a gathering of 18 essays in which an author chooses a room which most vividly captures all the felt emotion of home. Richard Bausch writes about his grandmother's porch as a familiar and comfortable place. Jane Smiley revels in the delights of the bathroom which she sees as "a refuge here in the eternal now of the physical life." Alex Kotlowitz memorializes the small bedroom he shared with his brother. The best essay is Colin Harrison's "The Master Bedroom" where he beautifully conveys the different moods, seasons, and changes of marriage as filtered through the room. This magical work will put you in touch with the places and memories which shaped your soul and spirit and colored your view of home.