Charles Goodrich is a poet, a gardener, a father, a husband, a
neighbor, a tinkerer, a builder of houses. In twenty essays,
shimmering with truth and grace, Goodrich explores the home birth
of his son, nights spent walking a screaming infant, years devoted
to building and remodeling his house, his own battle with
alcoholism, and the joys of small spaces, always pursuing his
ultimate subject: how to live one's life. The Practice of Home is a
brilliantly written, warmly funny and ironic testimony to the
home-made and the close-at-hand.
He writes, "I wanted to discover whether building a house could be
a way of building a self." What he discovers is "the practice of
home," which he recommends "as a kind of adventure, as travel of
the most demanding and rewarding sort, for the practice of homes
leads us deeper and deeper into our own communities, into our
native intelligence, and into our souls." "I built a house," he
writes. "I botched a lot of things, but it all came out all right.
Let me tell you about it."
And we are blessed in his telling, which sings with laughter, acute
observation, sound philosophy, and razor-sharp insight. Like
Michael Pollan, Tracy Kidder, and Annie Dillard, Goodrich is a
writer to read and re-read.
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