In this paper I examine Bernardine Evaristo’s reflections of the idea of ‘home’ and its signification for the migrant displaced subject. Taking as a point of departure Avtar Brah’s oft-quoted statement that in diasporic writing “‘home’ is a mythic place of desire” (Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities, Routledge, 2003: 192), or in other words a place invested with nostalgic longing, I wish to show how, for this second-generation writer of mixed-race background who lacks the “interior knowledge” (John McLeod, Beginnning Postcolonialism, MUP, 2000: 212) of the distant ‘home’ and is yet ‘positioned’ by her inherited link to an/‘other’ place this condition results in a reconfigured treatment of the ‘imaginary homeland.’ In Soul Tourists Evaristo is trying to create a home, a space of belonging by ‘digging up’ black roots in a European context invoking the haunting memory of black Europeans who have been forgotten or written out of official European history. Hers is hence an attempt at resurrecting and thus asserting a black presence in European geography and history. In her search for new models of identity and new forms of belonging, the author has moved beyond the first generation immigrant’s nostalgic longing for home. Instead, she courageously explores new routes and forges new narratives about her place in the world in relation to a distant homeland as well as to the ‘new’ home.