House of Steps: Finding the Path Home

by Amy Blackmarr

The author of Going to Ground describes her journey from Georgia back to northeast Kansas, where she and her dogs set up housekeeping, in entertaining essays that detail her encounters with the woods, wasps, roaches, and the wonders of the natural world. Tour.

Genres: Nonfiction, Southern

192 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1999

Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a quick little read about a single woman living on her own in the Kansas countrside in an old, unique house. Although I found most of the book uninspired, Blackmarr does hit beautiful notes in some of her descriptive paragraphs.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've almost finished this book after reading it for the third time. Since the first time I read it, I have begun reducing my book shelf to books I want to read again and again and passing the others along. This one is a keeper. It feels like a languorous afternoon spent in a hammock with a glass of iced tea nearby. A dirt road, peculiar house, and three dogs kind of rambler. Reminds me of myself.

[Rachel]

I lived in this house around 2000-2001 and read this book while living there.

[Erin]

another great book of essays - I've been to this house - it's pretty cool and quirky