Through the fourteen stories in this collection, Guy Cranswick explores "home" and what can happen when it proves elusive. In the title story, The Nine Avenues were "nine small roads that ran up the same route in unsealed tracks. The roads were joined and trees planted by the side of the road." So too the disparate characters in Nine Avenues, who search for home via different routes, converge in the realization that the journey sometimes matters more than the destination.