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When Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job teaching in Baltimore he searched for schools for his sons and bought a house This would be unremarkable but for the fact that he grew up in West Baltimore and his job was at Johns Hopkins whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood to the city and its history provides a point of departure for this captivating memoir in essaysWith sardonic wit Jackson describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of Freddie Gray His new neighborhood Homelandlargely White built on racial covenantsis not where he is supposed to live But his purchase and what it might mean for his children provides a foundation for this personal spiritual and civic history that captures the raging absurdity of American life Shelter is an extraordinary biography of a city and a celebration of our capacity for domestic thriving It establishes Lawrence Jackson as a maverick essential writer