Cisneros describes “home” in a way that is deeper than just where you live. Cisneros explains that to her home is not just a house that you live in or town you grew up in. Home is where you become yourself. She found her home in Iowa. She explains that Iowa or her living arrangement had nothing to do with her finding home there. It was the book began that she found a home in. She says, “While at Iowa I began a book that wasn’t part of my thesis, but which served to shelter me during my time there. I needed shelter.” She shows the reader that you can find your “home” in more than just a location. Your home is where you feel safe, secure and the most like yourself. She goes on to say “Maybe I was never more homeless than during those two years in graduate school. I found my home in the country-folk monologues of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, the anti-poetics of Chilean poet Nicanor Parra, the rage of Malcolm X.” Further describing the works of literature and art she found a home in. In the past, if I were to think of home the way Cisneros does, it would have been a basketball court or a lacrosse field. That is where I felt the most myself. Especially the lacrosse field. Playing lacrosse, I never really had any other thoughts in my mind. The only thought I had was getting the ball from my lacrosse stick into the goal. That’s it. It was so simple yet so difficult. I loved everything about it. The aggressiveness, the drive, even sometimes the trash talk. Often times we find ourselves so indulged in something we love that we are blinded of the horrible things that come with it. That was the case for me and lacrosse. The fact that I received the recognition I did for lacrosse only increased in my passion for it. It became my whole life. I felt at home like this is what I was meant to do.  As time went on, my home was no longer on a lacrosse field, leaving me homeless. I still believe I am homeless. I’m trying to find my home, and there is nothing wrong with that. I had a home and now I don’t, this cycle will continue on and I will continue to find myself the same way Cisneros did.