A review by cmarie1665
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell

4.0

This book incorporated so many different myths and traditions, epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, Norse myths...it was like a beautiful fever dream. The experience of miscarriage was described in such a visceral and embodied way, like muscle memory. For the first one hundred pages, it was my ideal book. I started to lose interest for some reason, possibly because of my stage of life. I wanted to read it uninterrupted, I felt like it deserved that, but I instead read it in bits and pieces while taking care of my kids, so it was perhaps just the stage of life that made the last one hundred pages seem onerous.