Humorous, poignant, and honest, No Place Like Home is the story of one woman’s journey to feel settled without settling, and her realization that home is much more than an address. Brooke Berman moved to New York as a wide-eyed eighteen-year-old eager to call the big city home. Candid, funny, and thoughtful, in No Place Like Home, we follow Brooke’s adventures as she crisscrosses town trying to make ends meet and make her dreams of a life in the theater come true. With each apartment, from the heavenly to the horrible, she learns more about how to heal the past, let go of excess, and keep a sense of humor while trying to stay flexible in the search for stability. No Place Like Home reminds everyone of the age-old struggle not just to find a house, but to build a true home.

No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments

Biographies & Memoirs

Berman, Brooke

Arts & Literature

Crown

Humorous, poignant, and honest, No Place Like Home is the story of one woman’s journey to feel settled without settling, and her realization that home is much more than an address.  Brooke Berman moved to New York as a wide-eyed eighteen-year-old eager to call the big city home. Candid, funny, and thoughtful, in No Place Like Home, we follow Brooke’s adventures as she crisscrosses town trying to make ends meet and make her dreams of a life in the theater come true. With each apartment, from the heavenly to the horrible, she learns more about how to heal the past, let go of excess, and keep a sense of humor while trying to stay flexible in the search for stability. No Place Like Home reminds everyone of the age-old struggle not just to find a house, but to build a true home. From the Hardcover edition.

Broadway Books

THE STORY: When entrusting the subject of motherhood to such a dazzling collection of celebrated American writers, what results is a joyous, moving, hilarious, and altogether thrilling theatrical event. Utterly unpredictable, MOTHERHOOD OUT LOUD sh

Motherhood Out Loud

Literature & Fiction

Cale, David

Rose, Susan R.

Stein, Joan

Ayvazian, Leslie

Dramas & Plays

Dramatist's Play Service

Four New Yorkers seek shelter, both physical and spiritual, in a variety of temporary abodes and in one another in this dark comedy.

Hunting and Gathering

Humor & Entertainment

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

Amy and Isaac are the perfect couple. Amy and Emma are the perfect friends. If everyone is so perfect, why are they so unhappy? A dark comedy about love, growing up and letting go. "... Armed with her customary flair for brainy-yet-heartfelt banter and an anthropologist's eye for social mechanics ... Berman raises several rich themes - loneliness, sexless infidelity, Gen Xers versus Gen Yers, gender roles and the awful mutability of love ..." -David Cote, Time Out New York "Amusing and poignant ... unerringly captures the confusions that bedevil even the most seemingly secure relationships." -New York Post "Ms Berman has a vigorous interest in turning over the rocks in contemporary relationships to find what is growing underneath." -New York Times

A Perfect Couple

Twenty-one-year-old It-Girl Abby and her plucky best friend, Clea, embark on a spur-of-the-moment revenge trip to London - Abby, in pursuit of the young novelist who has cannibalized her in his literary debut and Clea desperately seeking Madonna. "... Brooke Berman's delicious literary comedy ... Twisted obsession is just one of the themes that Berman navigates with skill and humor in this sharp satire. In addition, her eloquent, self-aware characters mull over issues of hero-worship and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, as it relates to fact and fiction: Seeing oneself refracted in a novel can lead to an identity crisis for the subject ... Berman's tale, which wriggles between past, present and the sub-Nabokovian world of the book ... this hip skewering of sexual and literary politics is more than just a pose." -David Cote, Time Out New York

Smashing

On the verge of the millennium, a strange teenaged prophetess obsessed with New Wave music invites a suburban family and the raunchy movie star who has crashed in on their holiday to join her as she welcomes The New World. "After her recent success with SAM AND LUCY at the Summer Play Festival, Brooke Berman has proven herself a playwright to watch. Her latest, THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS, doesn't disappoint. It's a slyly funny, thought-provoking piece ... THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS is a home run ..." -CurtainUp "Ms Berman fractures her storyboard with abandon, jump-cutting among characters and between inner and outer dialogue fearlessly, as she did in her play SMASHING ... And the exchanges are full of wit ..." -Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

The Triple Happiness

Sophy thinks she's the holy whore, Miriam runs from the family, and Justin tries to keep them all together. These three cousins with uncanny psychic abilities embark on a strange road trip in order to say goodbye. Family, mysticism, sex, and Judaism. "Brooke Berman's play UNTIL WE FIND EACH OTHER ... has two important things going for it: an intriguing subject matter (the nature of faith) that rarely gets explored in the theater and a clear understanding of the way time and place can be quickly fractured and collaged in live theater ... it's not often that you want to hear more from a play's characters. The six people Berman has created are so distinctive and conflicted that they really keep you guessing. At the heart of this strange but gently mystical 90-minute drama ... are three American Jews cousins who are so close they might be siblings, and at the same time so different they might be from far-flung planets. Everyone is searching for something in this play, and while that in itself is nothing new, the talk about love and experience and spirituality is complicated, yearning, honest and embattled. And in true Talmudic style, there are far more questions than simple answers. UNTIL WE FIND EACH OTHER is a play in which everybody is wrestling with angels. And their battles are worth observing." -Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times

Until We Find Each Other

A contemporary Calypso on the island of Manhattan learns what family is all about. "I am extremely taken and impressed with her work and find everything she writes to be infused with a most intriguing and original voice ... I think Brooke is a first rate talent and will distinguish herself in the American theater." -Christopher Durang "Ms Berman has a vigorous interest in turning over the rocks in contemporary relationships to find what is growing underneath." -New York Times on A PERFECT COUPLE "Twisted obsession is just one of the themes that Berman navigates with skill and humor." -David Cote, Time Out New York on SMASHING "Brooke Berman has proven herself a playwright to watch." -CurtainUp on THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS "Brooke Berman's book has an odd and subtle charm, an intelligent memoir about growing up and finding one's place in the world. This is a thoughtful and fascinating coming-of-age book ... intelligent and wise." -Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis-Saint Paul Star Tribune on NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Out of the Water

B F Fs Nicky and Isobel, home from their first year of college, spend the summer on Isobel's rooftop collecting both experiences and people while shooting a dogma-style reality film about their summer. But when they add Rexx to their collection, and their old friend Tiger returns from rehab, will this temporary paradise be lost? "I am extremely taken and impressed with her work and find everything she writes to be infused with a most intriguing and original voice...I think Brooke is a first rate talent and will distinguish herself in the American theater." Christopher Durang "Ms Berman has a vigorous interest in turning over the rocks in contemporary relationships to find what is growing underneath." The New York Times on A PERFECT COUPLE "Twisted obsession is just one of the themes that Berman navigates with skill and humor." David Cote, Time Out New York on SMASHING "Brooke Berman has proven herself a playwright to watch." Curtain Up on THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS

Amazing

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Berman, Brooke. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Berman, Brooke

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Berman, Brooke. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments

No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments

Motherhood Out Loud

Hunting and Gathering

A Perfect Couple

Smashing

The Triple Happiness

Until We Find Each Other

Out of the Water

Amazing