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Book Review of Red House : Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in House

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Helpful Score: 3


I enjoyed the way the author alternates her family's recent history in the house with the 300-year-old history of the house itself.

Like the author's father, my own father purchased an old New England house before my sister and I were born. I identified with many of Messner's experiences, from living in a chilly house during New England winters to the feeling that I was living in a house that held its own history from families that lived there before us.