His days are filled with the stuff of the dead, and people descending upon these possessions like buzzards upon a corpse.Īnne lives with her mother in a bad house. Lewis and his mother run a business curating estate sales. And TOTALLY my wheelhouse.Ī bad house, in the estate curator's terminology, is a house with little or no potential for reselling quite often it's filled with the detritus of years, a hoarding of objects whose only value is in relation to the personal history of the deceased. On the other hand, it didn't change my brain in any way. And the only other thing I want from it is more. It's a beautiful story, easy to read in one sitting. It also shows the inner workings of the estate sale business (duh). This book is about growing up and claiming your space and community and personality and family and figuring out who YOU REALLY ARE. So, I figure, better safe than sorry.īut I'm not a hoarder. I hate the feeling of realizing you need something that you gave away just months before. I like to keep things I think might be useful. I gotta admit, I can be sentimental about stuff.
There are a couple of mysterious and illuminating plot points, and we think a lot about STUFF. The other character likes to go to estate sales, and is an outsider for several different reasons. They move from dead person's house to dead person's house, organizing their belongings in a sellable way.
One of these characters works with the family estate sale business. Yes, McNeil, do more of this kind of thing. Not that I disliked it, I just didn't connect and so, didn't finish it.ĪNYWAY, Sara's ideas and storytelling is SO accessible for me (yeah PacNW culture), and McNeil's illustration is seamless and invisible, which is kinda the highest compliment for a GN's illustration work. The illustration is by Carla Speed McNeil, a great indie artist who is most famous for Finder, a kind of crazy fantasy comic that everyone seems to like but me. Honestly, I'm a sucker for niche culture stories.īad Houses is set in Failin(g), OR, and written by Sara Ryan, an acquaintance of mine who's an amazing author and teen librarian in Portland.
Behold! The mystical and mysterious world of ESTATE SALES!
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