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| Have you ever passed an old house and wondered if these walls could talk? I Am The House invites you to enter a revealing tale. It’s a literary time machine sweeping you through 400 years of American history as lived in a small East End town, a captivating chronicle blending compelling characters, an absorbing narrative, and profound insights into safeguarding our past. I Am The House recently received one of the National Indie Excellence Awards in the Historical Fiction category. Review by Andrew Alpern, an architectural historian, architect, and attorney, whose latest book is Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings: “At its heart, this 400-year historical saga set on the North Fork at the east end of Long Island is a passionate plea for the preservation of historic houses, presented as the story of four such buildings and the families who occupied them over the years, but told from two points of view – the houses themselves, and an empathetic narrator who comments on the architecture, the occupants, the development of the town and the area, and the importance to the present of all that past. Elegant smooth-flowing prose is embellished with richly seasoned details that track the passing years. Both informative and entertaining, the book is a nuanced exposition on the interplay of humans and houses, ambition and architecture, but inevitably people and their passions. An engrossing read.” |
