OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE: February 15, 2022

A hybrid memoir in lyric essays, poems, found artifacts, and emails, (home) explores the many different ways we seek belonging, and the many unexpected forms it arrives to us in. With an intimate tone reserved for confessions between beloveds, Mickle-Molefe spins a world through details: iced coffee, frayed jeans, the scent of lilac and cantor oil, salt and sand, ice cream, the gravity of laughter and grief that draws us together. “If home is a collection of stories that may or may not have occurred…” they write, “I write these words for the river that runs through us, be it by choice or by blood.”

Jabulile Mickle-Molefe is a mother, writer, and diviner based in Chicago. Their work has appeared in petrichor journal, Triangle House Review, Vagabond City, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. They once met David Lynch in an airport and their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net. They rep big bimbo energy and love Ohio. This is their first chapbook! Thank you for finding it! Catch Jabulile on Twitter at @pleonasticheaux.