The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

Description

Young Miriam is born into a world where women carry houses stitched to their backs, while men carry keys with the power to unlock them. Miriam’s nomadic family moves from clearing to clearing within a dark wood, but no matter how deep into the forest they travel, the haunted calls of Wild Things follow. As precious family heirlooms disappear and Father roams through the woods later and later into the night, Mother slowly loses her memory and Miriam begins to understand that her family might not be as human as it appears. The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs is a modern fairytale that interrogates the trauma embodied by mothers, inherited by daughters, and patterned in our walls, chests, and feet.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Sammie Downing
Published: 12/18/2019
Publisher: Half Mystic Press
ISBN: 9781948552080
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 0.24″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.00″ W

About the Author
Downing, Sammie: – The poet Ed Roberson once told Sammie Downing, “You only have one life and you only have one work.” She’s taken this advice perhaps too literally and has lived in seven states and two countries. She’s been a housekeeper, a huntress and a fraud investigator. Currently, she resides in Denver, Colorado. She looks forward to her next adventure.