Unraveling Secrets: How Laura Childs Gill’s What a House Can Hold Transforms a Home into a Mystery
I found these essays especially captivating because I, too, struggle with the concepts of home and definition, and with living in the unsettled gray. In “After Apples,” Gill writes about what women are allowed to want. I took that as an invitation to want multiple things at once, and to believe that there can be many answers without one necessarily being wrong.
“Well, I don’t in a way, but I kind of do,” Gill says in the same essay when she is asked whether she has children. Gill is willing to say: I don’t know. Or maybe I do. Or both. Again and again, she lets two contradictory things be true at once.
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