Unraveling Secrets: How Laura Childs Gill’s What a House Can Hold Transforms a Home into a Mystery
What can a house hold? Houses appear to offer permanence, but they also contain marriages, memories, family stories, secrecy, departures, and the selves people eventually outgrow.
In “House Rules,” we spend time inside and around Emily Dickinson’s house. Gill writes, “Now I will go to many other [authors’] houses and write about how strange they are because authors and their homes and our attachments to them might just give me the solution to the problem I am having with wanting to be an author and struggling to be at home.” I loved this line because it contains the entire collection in miniature, both in what it says and in the way it moves.
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