Housebound
Publisher: Lake Forest College Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780982315668
Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, general; Fiction, family life
Description: Elizabeth Gentry's debut, "Housebound, " is a novel like no other: a disquieting and interior fairy-tale adventure through one family's secrets and lies. Maggie, the eldest daughter, is preparing to leave the house in which she's lived, worked, and been educated her whole life: a life led seemingly without contact with the outside world, save in the form of weekly trips to the library for the stories that are the only escape for Maggie and her eight brothers and sisters. Maggie's seeming estrangement from the most familiar details of her life give the novel an almost Kafkaesque feel, as if Kafka had been born an Appalachian woman. -- Provided by publisher.