L.A. Heberlein's Every Man Must Build a Home continues the study of the narrative process begun in the author's previous Livingston Press novel, Sixteen Reasons Why I Killed Richard M. Nixon.  In that work, sixteen different narrators claimed credit for a deed which, logically, only one of them at most could possibly have performed.  In this novel, a host of narrators claim private knowledge of the protagonist, a young Coloradan on a cross-country trip with a friend, undertaken with no more discernible motive than that it appeared as an alternative to suicide when he could not summon a coherent reason for that step.  Every Man Must Build a Home is built more like an imagist poem than a conventional novel.  There are conventional stories, but each is subverted, and underneath all of them weave threads of images -- trains, barbed wire, fire, houses -- which tell their own stories and create their own structures.