The earth house
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After their involvement with a Zen Buddhist Center intensifies, the author and her companion Sylvia decide to design and build their own rustic home on a plot of land DuPrau has bought from the center. The effort to create an ideal house soon turns all-consuming, but this memoir of its ups and downs also grapples with the subject of mortality, as Sylvia becomes ill.
Zen BuddhismLGBTQ biography and memoirStonewall Book AwardsEarth housesDesign and constructionAnecdotesDwellingsPsychological aspects