to will a house
A mixed-media novel
Sisters, Emily and Corinna, return to their deceased grandparents’ farmhouse on a peninsula in the Penobscot Bay to pack up the last of their belongings and reconcile the premature death of their youngest sister, Lucy.
Structured as a will and told from the perspectives of multiple characters, including the House, this story follows the suspenseful unfolding of a family’s trauma across time and place—beginning with a Penobscot community on Maine’s southeast coast and ending in a future of land reclamation and reckoning.
With collages, architectural drawings & original art by
Jane Forrest, Julia Penchaszadeh-Robert, Natalia Boumatar, and E.G. Rheams
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A mixed-media novel, featuring architectural drawings, original art, and collages
SYNOPSIS:
Sisters, Emily and Corinna, return to their deceased grandparents’ farmhouse on a peninsula in the Penobscot Bay to pack up the last of their belongings and reconcile the premature death of their youngest sister, Lucy.
Structured as a will and told from the perspectives of multiple characters, including the House, this story follows the suspenseful unfolding of a family’s trauma across time and place—beginning with a Penobscot community on Maine’s southeast coast and ending in a future of land reclamation and reckoning.