A review by rdebner
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell

4.0

This is easily the strangest book I've read in a long time. It's like a really intense fairy tale, but one of the grimmer Brothers Grimm. There is death and resurrection; parenthood, both real and imagined; what it is to grow older and change with a spouse; and creatures that change form, are reanimated, and/or in no way should still be walking around in the shape they are in. There is a fierce mama bear; a squid with a grudge; a miscarried fetus that becomes a cancer; and so many different mis-en-abimes that I lost count. Definitely compelling, but not for everyone.