The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs - by Sammie Downing (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Young Miriam is born into a world where women carry houses stitched to their backs, while men carry keys with the power to unlock them. As precious family heirlooms disappear and Father roams through the woods later and later into the night, Mother slowly loses her memory and Miriam understands that her family might not be as human as it appears.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Young Miriam is born into a world where women carry houses stitched to their backs, while men carry keys with the power to unlock them. Miriam's nomadic family moves from clearing to clearing within a dark wood, but no matter how deep into the forest they travel, the haunted calls of Wild Things follow. As precious family heirlooms disappear and Father roams through the woods later and later into the night, Mother slowly loses her memory and Miriam begins to understand that her family might not be as human as it appears.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>"The Family that Carried Their House on Their Backs</em> is a magical story and a family story; its magic evolves from its unfaltering attention to how family--as captivity, as inheritance--can feel. Sammie Downing rediscovers the pure facts of love and and wildness in the spare, strange folklore through which her characters set out. A wise and stunning novella of intense tenderness about the permanence that dwells inside our transience and the wilderness that lives within our homes." <em>--</em>Mark Mayer, author of<em> The Aerialists, </em>an <em>Indie Next </em>Selection and <em>Electric Literature </em>Best Debut</p><p>"In this beguiling family romance, a daughter asks her father, 'how do you know what you're looking at in the mirror?' Her question haunts a darkly beautiful fairy tale of a migrant family moving from place to place in an endless wood, told with cheekiness and wit, with a surprise hiding in every exchange between child and parent, human and Wild Thing, House and home. Luxurious and raw, attuned to the wounds in nature that are also wounds in us, Sammie Downing's debut displays an uncanny power, like the family at its center, 'to wring music from your bones.'" --Joshua Corey, Dorset Prize and Fitzpatrick-O'Dinn Award-winning author of <em>Severance Songs </em>and <em>Fourier Series</em></p><p>"This is one of my favorite pieces ever written. It's as tender as a bruise. It's light and murky and beautiful as nighttime mist descending on a forest. It's whimsical yet slightly acrid. It is courageous and raw and unsentimental. A heartbreaking portrait of sisters and mothers. This story brings me to my knees." --Kaisa Cummings, author of <em>Home Remedies</em> </p><p>"Mother restarts her memory. Father balances precariously between two worlds. Meanwhile, sisters Miriam and Essie struggle with their parents' sometimes devastating imperfections and what it means to grow up, grow apart, and grow together. In these ghostly bites of prose, Sammie Downing gives us glimpses through windowpanes to the unsettling world of Houses and Hollows, Wild Things and severed keys, and sisters mirrored." <em>--</em>Emily Capettini, author of <em>Thistle, </em>winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize</p><br>
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