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A Good House for Children is rife with quiet, creeping dread that feels like the languid dream that happens when you're far too tired and you can't quite wake up from it. It rides the edge of a kind of gentle folk horror. Its not scary, but it is unsettling and nightmare flavored, and resonates so much with the exhausted, unappreciated rhythms and sacrifices of child-rearing.
It is a haunted house story, but also a story about grief, boundaries, love, and the sublimation of individual identity to the ideal of Motherhood.
A warning for the edges, A Good House for Children surprised me with its ending and leaves a lot of questions unanswered. I think it makes you work to make your own meaning in many ways and if you want your story wrapped up with a bow, this may not be the book for you.
It is a haunted house story, but also a story about grief, boundaries, love, and the sublimation of individual identity to the ideal of Motherhood.
A warning for the edges, A Good House for Children surprised me with its ending and leaves a lot of questions unanswered. I think it makes you work to make your own meaning in many ways and if you want your story wrapped up with a bow, this may not be the book for you.
