The Romance of Real Estate Good real estate novelists drive us out to parts of town we've never seen before.
Sex is one, which is why some authors are reluctant to write about it directly.
Real estate is another, at least for anyone who has ever ridden the heart-stopping roller coaster of the contemporary housing market. I'm not the first to observe that sex and real estate arouse feelings of similar intensity. Garber seems more intent, though, on showing that domesticity is often described in the language of physical passion than in explaining how such desires are put to literary use. On one level, it's simple. Good real estate novelists do what good real estate agents do.