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Title	:	Houses: a novel
Author	:	Cynthia Rogers Parks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 362 pages
Published	:	November 13th 2009 by Leigh Walker Books
Categories	:	Novels

Houses: a novel

Cynthia Rogers Parks

Paperback | Pages: 362 pages

Rating: 4.27 | 37 Users | 15 Reviews

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This is a very soft, very subtle book. It reads like the memory of a fireside chat you once had with your favorite aunt or a special neighbor . An easy read, you'd tell your bookclub. Piece of cake. But this one haunts you. The narrator's voice gets in your head and surfaces when you're standing at the kitchen sink, in the carpool line, microwaving your lunch at work. The gender issues and problems that this ordinary character confronted twenty, thirty years ago are the same ones that women,and men, are addressing now. The economic conditions that thwarted Lacey Winter's simple desires to have a home, be a mother and wife and still be a "person" are as real today as they ever were. But in this book there's no gender "war". Only dialectic. Only the questioning, reminiscing voice of that favorite aunt,that special neighbor or grandparent.

Don't write this one off as simple nostalgia. It IS an easy read. Because the narrator's voice is so intensely honest and accessible. But HOUSES is a complex novel, even if it's a gentle complexity.

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ISBN:	0615328938 (ISBN13: 9780615328935)
Edition Language:	English

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This simply titled book was a pleasant surprise to me. It is written as a memoir and I had to keep reminding myself that this is a novel, not Cynthia Rogers Park's memoir, although I'm sure there is a great deal of herself in the book. "Houses" is the memoir of Lacey Winter. It is also a snapshot of historic moments of the U.S. through the 1950s, 60's, 70's and on toward the millennium; the growth of changes after WWII, through the Viet Nam era, the deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Ted

I generally agree with the other reviews Ive read but Id have to add that this is a very funny book in many ways. Certainly HOUSES is not a comedy, but the narrator in the book is very down to earth and incredibly witty at times. I actually found myself laughing, and crying, in the same chapter. I dont go for genre fiction usually. Dan Brown doesnt do it for me and I dont really care about Vampires or girl detectives. I just like a good story, well told, and Id rather connect with a book than

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Loved this book, and the beautiful story told through the houses in which our narrarator has lived.

This is a very soft, very subtle book. It reads like the memory of a fireside chat you once had with your favorite aunt or a special neighbor . An easy read, you'd tell your bookclub. Piece of cake. But this one haunts you. The narrator's voice gets in your head and surfaces when you're standing at the kitchen sink, in the carpool line, microwaving your lunch at work. The gender issues and problems that this ordinary character confronted twenty, thirty years ago are the same ones that women,and

This was a fascinating read, written like a memoir, though it is fictional, of Lacey Winters, a southern girl growing all the way to middle age and how she views her life through the years. It's written almost like your neighbor telling you her life story. Houses took me from the early 1950's all the way into the year 2000, with political and social commentary the whole way through. I found that I could really relate to so many things the author, Cynthia Parks, had to say, particularly when it

This is a very soft, very subtle book. It reads like the memory of a fireside chat you once had with your favorite aunt or a special neighbor . An easy read, you'd tell your bookclub. Piece of cake. But this one haunts you. The narrator's voice gets in your head and surfaces when you're standing at the kitchen sink, in the carpool line, microwaving your lunch at work. The gender issues and problems that this ordinary character confronted twenty, thirty years ago are the same ones that women,and