A Good House 
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: HarperFlamingoCanada
Published: 2000
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780006485261
First sentence: FED BY THE ROLLING FIELDS and the running miles of shallow country ditches to the east of town, Stonebrook Creek approached the town aslant, cutting down through Livingston's gully, then flowing past the burning mounds of garbage at the dump, a ripe, evolving depth of trash that came alive at night with the industrious plunder of raccoons, an afternoon home-away-from-home for the town's mostly good-natured dogs.