Red House Hardback - 2004

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Media reviews

Few contemporary American writers have so acute a feeling for the interweaving of personal and social history...wonderful. (Charles Baxter, author of Feast of Love)Impossible to put down. (Terry Ryan, bestselling author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio)The Red House is the best work of non-fiction I've read in years... This book sizzles with authority. (Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy)Red House is the story of AmericaBoldly conceived and meticulously crafted, Red House is alive with ghosts and possibilities...mesmerizing. (Beth Kephart, author of A Slant of Sun, National Book Award finalist, and Still Love in Strange Places)Joyous and tragic by turns...an act of loving restoration that ensures the Red House will live on forever. (George Howe Colt, author of The Big House, National Book Award Finalist)Sarah Messer's lively, lyrical memoir...gives new meaning to the idea of place and the place of history in our lives. (Jane Brox, author of Five Thousand Days Like This OneLucid, Lyrical prose...a truly memorable work. (Charles Siebert, author of Wickerby)Messer's riveting account of intersecting families over space and time is a powerful and beautiful piece of writing (Jenny McPhee, author of The Center of Things)