The House of BeingAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U. S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey "Trethewey doesn't just explore the reasons why she writes. She also offers a compassionate argument for why we must all be the authors of our own stories."Shannon Carlin, Time "Searching and intimate, this impresses."Publishers Weekly In a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the