By turns lyrical, nostalgic, hard-edged, and elegiac, the personal essays and memoirs in Home Again are, in tone, spirit, and intent, a loving ode to the manners, morays, and idiosyncrasies that characterize the state of Indiana.
— Michael Steinberg, 2003 Independent Press Memoir of the Year
 

Rick Farrant contributed an essay entitled “Hunting for Hoosiers,” a look at the theories about the origin of the word Hoosiers.