Unraveling Secrets: How Laura Childs Gill’s What a House Can Hold Transforms a Home into a Mystery
Her essays are a series of beginnings, both literal and figurative. Her writing returns to itself repeatedly, as though we are moving through a house by revisiting its rooms, reconsidering what can be seen through the windows and down the halls. Gill uses physical houses, thoughts of houses, and even a tattoo of a house to ask what happens when the structures meant to contain a life can no longer hold it.
The houses allow Gill to approach emotional material sideways, which is often when these essays are most moving. She invites us to consider the relationship between artistic creation and self-reinvention.
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