The Earth House
1993 memoir by Jeanne DuPrau
0-449-90814-3The Earth House is a 1993 memoir by American author Jeanne DuPrau.
The Earth House was a finalist for the 1993 Stonewall Book Award.[1]
Plot summary
They hadn't pictured themselves as the sort of people to take up Eastern spiritual practice, but on their first visit to a zen center, two women discover something that speaks to them on a level deeper than their everyday experience, and they begin to make a new plan for their lives. They begin to consider giving up their suburban comforts and build a house beside a monastery in the mountains. As the walls of the house go up, the two women make and re-make plans, wrestle with a chainsaw, learn to make windows, and set up a computer powered by the sun. Their spiritual practice transforms their vision of the house, and the building of it transforms them both.
References
- ^ "The Earth House | Awards & Grants". American Library Association. November 29, 2011. Archived from the original on December 16, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
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Works by Jeanne DuPrau
- The City of Ember (2003)
- The People of Sparks (2004)
- The Prophet of Yonwood (2006)
- The Diamond of Darkhold (2008)
- The Earth House (1993)
- Car Trouble (2005)
- City of Ember (2008 film)
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