Of all of the questions I've faced during adulthood, perhaps the most enduring is how much of myself I ought to devote to homemaking. There are, I'm told, people who navigate this question with ease, floating from house to house without agony, investing their domestic energy freely, taking whatever comforts are on offer and not stressing it that much when the time comes to move on. These skills have proven elusive to me, though, and in their absence I find myself focusing on more tactile traits, and more tangible projects. I am, in the end, a house guy through and through.
First published in 1985, Tracy Kidder's House describes "the complex web of relationships and emotions" involved in the construction of a home. As architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote in the New York Times, the book is told with a "splendid intensity" and "reads like a novel," bringing "a sense of deep pleasure" at its conclusion. These descriptors stir me, and I'm pleased to announce that the Scope of Work Reading Group will be discussing House beginning on Thursday, May 14th.
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