So there’s nothing I love more than a place memoir. These books are not just about places — they are about grieving and falling in love, politics and language, family, money, art, and history. And because they’re memoirs, they’re focused, of course, on the lives of their authors. But they are also about the beating hearts of places. They’re about the messy intersections between people and place — how places affect human lives, and how humans change the places we inhabit. From Hong Kong and the Eastern Shore of Maryland to North Philly and the Alberta oil sands, these memoirs engage with place in new and surprising ways. If you’re looking for more books that explore themes of place, check out these eye-opening memoirs about nature and the environment, many of which are about places as much as people. You might also be interested in these books set in transporting places.
