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In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

par Matt Bell

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In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the world they've known, they mean to start the family the unnamed husband wants so obsessively. But their every pregnancy fails, and as their grief swells, the husbandâ??a hot-tempered and impatient fisherman and trapperâ??attempts to prove his dominion in other ways, emptying both the lake and the woods of their many beasts. As the years pass, the wife changes too, her suddenly powerful voice singing some new series of objects into being, including a threatening moon hung above their house, its doomed weight already slowly falling, bending their now-starless sky.

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods is about marriage, parenthood, and the dreams parents have for their childrenâ??as well as what happens to a marriage whose success is measured solely by the children it produces, or else the grief that marks their abse
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I wanted to like it more. Despite some fascinating ideas and promise, "The House" only manages a flat sort of magic realism that never quite gels. ( )
  amandrake | Dec 31, 2023 |
3.5 stars I guess. Like the ambition and energy, though the mythological or fantastical story-universe isn't my favorite destination. ( )
  AlexThurman | Dec 26, 2021 |
This book is so surreal. Also, reading most of it on about four hours of sleep makes it even more so. ( )
  resoundingjoy | Jan 1, 2021 |
Hoo, boy, how do I even begin to talk about this book? I could try saying that it's about a man and a woman in, well, a house upon the dirt, between a wood where there's a bear and a lake where there's apparently a squid, and they want to have children, but all the woman's pregnancies keep failing, and then...

Nah. That doesn't give you the sense of what this book is at all, and honestly I have no idea how to even finish that sentence after the "and then..." Better, maybe, to say that it has the feel of a dark fairy tale, or a strange mythology, or, better still, some kind of dream that seems to be made up of metaphors I don't feel like I entirely understand, shaped into a whole that I feel like I might sort of understand if I glance at it sideways, but maybe not. It's fascinating, though, in its own surreal way, and the writing is impressive. Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what the hell I just read, but I do think I'm glad to have read it. ( )
2 voter bragan | Sep 2, 2020 |
Someone read this and tell me what I just read. ( )
1 voter trinker | Jan 9, 2020 |
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In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the world they've known, they mean to start the family the unnamed husband wants so obsessively. But their every pregnancy fails, and as their grief swells, the husbandâ??a hot-tempered and impatient fisherman and trapperâ??attempts to prove his dominion in other ways, emptying both the lake and the woods of their many beasts. As the years pass, the wife changes too, her suddenly powerful voice singing some new series of objects into being, including a threatening moon hung above their house, its doomed weight already slowly falling, bending their now-starless sky.

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods is about marriage, parenthood, and the dreams parents have for their childrenâ??as well as what happens to a marriage whose success is measured solely by the children it produces, or else the grief that marks their abse

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