"The Car That Brought You Here offers a beautifully vivid and poignant meditation on the landscape of the heart and how we are shaped by the poetics of place." Kim Barnes

AVAILABLE ON MARCH 15th!

Contact: frances at francesmccue.com

You can pre-order The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs from an independent bookstore near you. I recommend The Elliott Bay Book Company.

My new blog, Notebook, is up and running. For now, I am telling stories about different places, how we are drawn to them and why they matter to us. Hugo's poems sink into the places he wrote about, and forever change them. How does the zing between temperament and earth shape our lives? Are we genetically attracted to certain places? My three sisters and I, raised in different households, in different parts of the world, all ended up in the Scottish-style mist of the Northwest.

In Marrakesh, I wrangle the story of how I came to live in Morocco and what happened to us there. But I wander into subjects like Walt Whitman, Islam in contemporary culture, the condition of the poet, riding a bicycle around roundabouts in Marrakesh, accidents that change your life, paintings that take your breath away, building a life from intention and whim and what happens when your husband dies one afternoon.