Unraveling Secrets: How Laura Childs Gill’s What a House Can Hold Transforms a Home into a Mystery
A house is not necessarily a home, and vice versa, but I like to think of them both as containers of sorts. When is a house a home? Gill describes the new home she has created through many beginnings, deliberations, departures, transitions, reinventions, and acts of writing. By the collection’s end, a home is made from plants, fruit, mess, beloved people, and beginnings and endings cradled in both hands. In short, it contains a family, however that family is defined.
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Aimee Seiff Christian writes memoir and creative nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Pidgeonholes, Atticus Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and more. She is a writing instructor and developmental editor, and is currently querying her memoir, Nobody’s Daughter, about adoption and identity. She is from New York City and currently lives in Massachusetts with her family. Find out more about Aimee at aimeechristian.net.
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