With her vivid intellectual curiosity and natural wit, Chollet interweaves an eclectic variety of sources-personal reflections, memoirs, American TV series, statistics, international news briefs-to pull us into an invigorating and multifaceted exploration of what being “at home” means today. At Home is her spirited response, at once a defense of the homebodies of the world and a sprawling investigation of home as a concept whose significance extends far beyond the private realm. Mona Chollet describes herself as a “stay-at-home journalist,” an embarrassing oxymoron that she often has to explain. At home: a domestic space odyssey Mona Chollet (La Découverte, 330 pages, 2015)
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