Home Remedies

Author: Gina Cornejo

Publisher: Bottlecap Press (2025)

The balm for the ailment of homesickness is elusive. Home Remedies is a five piece collection dedicated to the collective ache of those seeking treatment for this ancient melancholy. Part travelogue diary, part nostalgic excavation, and part dreamscape protagonist, Cornejo is a deeply enthusiastic connoisseur of home; either grounded in it, departing from it, longing for it, or never knowing it, she examines the fascination between the alchemy and reality of where we might hang our hat.

Home Remedies guides the reader from witnessing her immigrant father from Peru, readying himself with dignity for his singing gigs in the freezing Midwest winters to returning to the country of her father, and fumbling over her poor pronunciations of her first language. With layovers in Paris, France, and even connecting to her time in North Carolina, Cornejo is a guide that offers warmth in their confessions, and the encouragement to continue onward seeking your true remedy.