BOOK

Brooke Berman, No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments (Harmony, $23). The author of Hunting and Gathering came to Manhattan at the age of eighteen in the hopes of someday becoming a full-time professional playwright. Talented, inexperienced, naïve, and broke, she spent the next twenty years sharing microscopically small apartments, sleeping on futons, bouncing from roommate to roommate and gradually finding herself along the way. Now she’s written a memoir of her formative years, and it’s a lovely piece of work, at once charming and deeply felt. No Place Like Home is one of the best books I’ve read about how young artists make their way–or not–in an unforgiving world (TT).