Creative Non-Fiction · Essay Collection
The House We Carry
Twelve personal essays on belonging and identity — the rooms we inherit and the ones we build.
About the collection
Every family hands down two things: the stories it tells and the rooms it keeps. The House We Carry gathers twelve essays written over six years — about the apartment above a bakery where I learned to read, the borrowed cottage that saved a marriage, and the kitchen table where three generations finally said the unsaid.
These are intimate, reported essays: I cook with grandmothers, walk condemned streets with architects, and sit with strangers in houses that are no longer theirs. The result is a book about rootedness in an age of moving — tender, funny and quietly political.
Essays included
- —The Stairwell — growing up above a bakery
- —Borrowed Walls — a cottage, a winter, a repair
- —What the Landlord Kept — cities and their keepers
- —Mother Tongue, Father's Kitchen — recipes as archives
- —The Last Key — closing my childhood home
- —…and six more
