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In a travel memoir that ventures from his smalltown upbringing to vastly different cultures around the globe, Tom Montgomery Fate comes to define "home" not as a physical location, but as a way of belonging. "Migrating birds have an internal compass that allows them to home their way back to their nesting place each spring, " he writes. "For birds, home is both verb and noun--both journey and destination." The same is true for Fate. Whether he...

If Tom Montgomery Fate has not found the secret formula for the deliberate, balanced life, he is a chief disciple of the search."-Chicago Tribune Try to imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan. This is the sensibility-serious yet irreverent-that suffuses Cabin Fever, as the author seeks to apply the hermit-philosopher's insights to a busy modern life. Tom Montgomery Fate lives in a Chicago suburb, where he is a husban...