No Place Like Home
A Memoir in 39 Apartments

A great memoir about transience and permanence, and about the need for people and the need for a refuge from people. It also ends up being about the Manhattan of the last twenty years, and about the idea of New York, written by someone whose "idea of New York" in some ways closely resembles mine but......more

Finally exactly the right time for this. I'm really happy that this exists. Brooke was a teacher of mine in college, my last year of playwriting, and I still think about things she said. Or sometimes just the way she says them. I also really enjoy her plays and the way she tells stories on her blog.......more

I was not planning to read No Place Like Home while moving across the country. But like so much else in life, as playwright and author Brooke Berman explores in her memoir, sometimes things don’t always go according to plan. Berman is looking for that place where she fits into the world — a situation......more

Brooke Berman lived in 39 different apartments and lived to write about it. Of course, writing is what she does. She doesn't just consider herself an expert on "finding cheap places to live...and then moving there," she is a successful playwright who cobbled together a career by working in food servi......more

I'm a sucker for picking up New York-y memoirs from the library and dismissing them once the quirky, haphazard stories wear off. But this book was inspiring the whole way through! Berman manages to land on her feet time and time again after a series of setbacks without being disheartening. She tells......more