Author: Joseph J. Dowling
Date: 2023
Quote: "[T]he house refused to take shape. The mud wouldn't allow it."
Suzie and Chris want to build a house in the country where their two children won't have to go to a city school. But delays, unanticipated expenses, and uncooperative weather are too much for Chris to cope with. He starts drinking heavily. Then it seems as if their home may be haunted. Can Suzie and the children escape back to the city?
This short story presented as a book left me with a complete lack of respect for the characters. Some people don't deserve to have children. I'm not sure to whom I can recommend this mini-tragedy...maybe people who've been living in the country long enough to enjoy a sarcastic laugh at weak and stupid city folk, but do country people feel mean enough to pay for that?
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