The Sunset House: Selected Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781608643240)

Sunset House is a captivating collection of essays that take readers on a journey with a Southern writer to various locations around the world. Through the lens of memoir, the essays delve into themes of survival, defiance, geopolitics, and the experience of reconnecting with oneself in a new home after enduring significant trauma. With a blend of humor, horror, and compelling storytelling, these essays offer a unique perspective on queer identity and the forces that shape our lives.

Marshall Moore is the author of four novels (Inhospitable, Bitter Orange, An Ideal for Living, and The Concrete Sky), four short-fiction collections (Love Is a Poisonous Color, A Garden Fed by Lightning, The Infernal Republic, and Black Shapes in a Darkened Room), and the memoir I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Litro, Storgy, Passengers Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Asia Literary Review, The Barcelona Review, and many other journals and anthologies. He is also the co-editor of three academic books on the pedagogy of creative writing and publishing. He holds a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University. A native of eastern North Carolina, he lives in Cornwall, England, and teaches creative writing and publishing at Falmouth University.