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The Hundred-Year House

by Rebecca Makkai

2014•Viking Adult•EN
About the book

The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai

Reading profile

Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.

Best for readers like The Mindful Reader. Which reader are you?

Insights from The Hundred-Year House

“The past doesn't change, but our distance from it does.”

Every secret in the Laurelfield house eventually leaks into the soil. The family spends decades trying to outrun ghosts that were never actually hiding.

Zee and Doug live in a loop of old mistakes. They think they are being original while just repeating her parents' patterns.

Violet Devohr is the most terrifying person in the room because she is so quiet. Her silence shapes every single room in that house.

“Art is a way of staying when you're gone.”

Artists can be incredibly selfish when they are chasing a legacy. They treat people like props for their own grand stories.

Details
Published
2014
Publisher
Viking Adult
ISBN
9780698163546
Language
EN

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