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Warren Ashworth

Auteur de We, the House: a novel

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We, the House: a novel (2021) 5 exemplaires

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Original and thoroughly charming. As the fond owner of a 110-year-old Kansas house, I've gotten caught up in its history and the people who built it, who were born, lived, and died there. Ashworth and Kander have brought their house, a stately Italianate residence dubbed Ambleside, to life through their (Ambleside's preferred pronoun) conversations with an intelligent, erudite, observant and occasionally temperamental woman in a painting on the wall. The House - a sensitive, earnest, gentle and sheltering soul - can only see outside their walls; Mrs. Speale [sic - actually a misinterpretation of Mrs. S. Peale's name] can only see what happens inside. Their discussions range across a century, enlightening the House about the lives of those who inhabited them (with forays into Latin and Greek etymology), through marital spats, the births of children, recovery from wartime traumas and a pandemic, courtships and deaths. The reader learns along with the House about the trials and triumphs of the humans who inhabit them, under the perceptive eye of Mrs. Peale.

I did occasionally stumble with the sequence of events, as the incidents are not told in the order in which they appear - but after all, we learn our own family stories in dribs and drabs, as different people tell them at different times. And I did wish for a photo or two of Ambleside besides just the cover! Readers are encouraged to look into the wonderful portraitist Ammi Phillips, and paint their own image of the indomitable Mrs. Peale, who I hope is having long, interesting chats with the other portraits in the museum where she may have at last come to rest, and perhaps with the museum themself.
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JulieStielstra | May 15, 2022 |

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