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The Folded World
When Charlie Shade and Alice Bussard find each other, neither is prepared for the powerful, aching feeling of love that unites them. After falling for the cheerful and empathetic young man, Alice asks God: “Please, leave us alone. Leave us just like this.” But as their relationship evolves, and their family grows with the addition of twin girls, so too does Charlie’s career as a social worker. Drawn to people in crisis, Charlie struggles to remain neutral when dealing with the troubled souls he meets. But as boundaries begin to blur and temptations arise at work and at home, Charlie and Alice head toward an emotional collision that will challenge their marriage in ways they never thought possible.
320 pages, Paperback
First published May 8, 2007
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Amity Gaige
12 books977 followersAmity Gaige is the author of four previous novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, and Sea Wife. Sea Wife was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Mark Twain American Voice Award. Her previous novel, Schroder, was named one of Best Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, among others, and was shortlisted for UK’s Folio Prize (now Writers’ Prize) in 2014. Her work has been translated into 18 languages. Amity is the winner of a Fulbright Fellowship, fellowships at the MacDowell and Yaddo colonies, and in 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. She lives in West Hartford, CT, with her family, and teaches creative writing at Yale.
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January 1, 2015
I had very high hopes for this book; there were even a few parts early on that led me to believe that it might end up on my list of favorites. The author has a gift for powerful, beautifully true statements that at times made me wish I had a pencil handy to underline them, and the book offers a rare and astute view into the overly-empathetic mind. It feels strange even to write that phrase, because I strongly believe that what the world needs most is moreempathy, but I also know from my own experience how difficult it can be to go through life as an overly empathetic, highly sensitive person. I identified with Charlie a great deal, with his natural inclination to help others, and his inability to draw boundaries. Like him, I have gotten too attached and determined to "save" others, feeling their pain so acutely that my rational mind decides to take the day off every now and then. So yes, there was a lot that I both identified with and loved in this book, but unfortunately the last chapters were a disappointment. They didn't seem to match the rest of the book in my opinion, almost as if the author was determined for a ____ ending (I'll leave out the adjective, to avoid spoilers), and tacked one on, after writing an entire novel headed in another direction. The ending simply did not feel authentic to me, which is a shame since so much of the book did.
February 2, 2008
Had to stop after the sentence "her days were filled with marriage and bergamot". Too much.
October 7, 2007
This book falls in the "hard to describe" category. When my husband asked me what was about, I think I said "a young married couple, but a lot of other things, too." On the back of the book, a review said something to the effect that this book is about how lives are touched by both the absence and presence of love. It's a fitting little nutshell. The book is both subtle and particular at the same time. And the main reason I gave it four stars was Amity Gaige's writing. She has a knack for weird metaphors and rich imagery. As I was first reading the book, it kind of screamed out "I'm being poignant!" but I didn't get that so much as the book went on. At some points, it almost felt more like a poem than a novel, especially in the emotionally-charged moments (like the internal monologues of the mentally ill). Quirky, yet meaningful.
March 13, 2009
I was really displeased by this book. I felt the concept was ill-conceived, the writing was mediocre, and the characters' actions, interactions and behavior just bizarre.
Gaige wields a heavy head, weaving together a series of coincidences that builds an expectation of some significant resolution at the close of the book that we never see, making the opening pages of this book misleading.
I would recommend staying away from this one.
Gaige wields a heavy head, weaving together a series of coincidences that builds an expectation of some significant resolution at the close of the book that we never see, making the opening pages of this book misleading.
I would recommend staying away from this one.
June 24, 2024
Dark and lovely.
July 28, 2015
Charlie and Alice, two individuals who have always felt somehow other in their own families, meet and fall deeply in love. Soon, they're married, with Alice staying at home with their twin daughters and Charlie pursuing his career in social work. Soon, Charlie's empathy has been going too far for some of his mentally unstable clients, while Alice feels adrift navigating life with two infants and trapped in their one bedroom apartment.
Gaige tells Charlie and Alice's story with beautiful prose, which is why I was initially drawn into the story. For example: "She had never been forewarned of happiness, so to her it was a complete surprise. She had a husband of the sort she never dreamed existed - gallant and tender and loyal as daybreak. It was as if she had died and gone to heaven, a heaven where you made love to yourself all day and he made love to you all night, and in between, you read" (30). Or the description of a female academic walking home in the evening: "tip-topping back and forth like a teacup full of buttermilk" (113).
And yet - at times the writing seemed forced, as if the author was consciously trying to show off how poignant and deep the writing was. For instance, in the opening pages Charlie as a small boy is supposedly somehow cosmically aware that Alice has been born, though they don't meet until they are adults. "The sun pulsed, hot on his blond head, and the paisley of the carpet pulsed, and the room smelled vividly and wonderfully of sun damage, and he felt, all at once, like a struck match, and that was the first time he ever thought of Alice" (4). I also wasn't sure what to make of the strange and violent premonitions Charlie's unnamed grandmother experiences where she imagines Charlie murdered: "She staggered backward from the body, cut as it was, lying as it was, throat cut, the head cocked and eyes staring as if appraising a last loveliness, and once again the grandmother became aware that she was standing in a white room, holding a newborn baby" (25).
I did like Charlie and Alice. I liked that Charlie's downfall is his goodness - he can't stop at the rules because he wants to do everything possible to help his clients. I liked Alice and Charlie together, so idealistic and in love in their tiny apartment. And I even liked Alice's sort of unlikeable mother with her "wintry complexion" (4). I also liked how Charlie's clients' lives were incorporated into the novel, since they were such a large part of Charlie's life. Although at time the plot seemed to struggle to right itself, this is about two individuals struggling both together and apart in their lives and how they navigate the early years of their marriage.
3.5 stars
Gaige tells Charlie and Alice's story with beautiful prose, which is why I was initially drawn into the story. For example: "She had never been forewarned of happiness, so to her it was a complete surprise. She had a husband of the sort she never dreamed existed - gallant and tender and loyal as daybreak. It was as if she had died and gone to heaven, a heaven where you made love to yourself all day and he made love to you all night, and in between, you read" (30). Or the description of a female academic walking home in the evening: "tip-topping back and forth like a teacup full of buttermilk" (113).
And yet - at times the writing seemed forced, as if the author was consciously trying to show off how poignant and deep the writing was. For instance, in the opening pages Charlie as a small boy is supposedly somehow cosmically aware that Alice has been born, though they don't meet until they are adults. "The sun pulsed, hot on his blond head, and the paisley of the carpet pulsed, and the room smelled vividly and wonderfully of sun damage, and he felt, all at once, like a struck match, and that was the first time he ever thought of Alice" (4). I also wasn't sure what to make of the strange and violent premonitions Charlie's unnamed grandmother experiences where she imagines Charlie murdered: "She staggered backward from the body, cut as it was, lying as it was, throat cut, the head cocked and eyes staring as if appraising a last loveliness, and once again the grandmother became aware that she was standing in a white room, holding a newborn baby" (25).
I did like Charlie and Alice. I liked that Charlie's downfall is his goodness - he can't stop at the rules because he wants to do everything possible to help his clients. I liked Alice and Charlie together, so idealistic and in love in their tiny apartment. And I even liked Alice's sort of unlikeable mother with her "wintry complexion" (4). I also liked how Charlie's clients' lives were incorporated into the novel, since they were such a large part of Charlie's life. Although at time the plot seemed to struggle to right itself, this is about two individuals struggling both together and apart in their lives and how they navigate the early years of their marriage.
3.5 stars
December 15, 2010
Once again, one of those books that deals with my favorite semi-sub-genre: people gradually falling out of love/a marriage in crisis. I don't know why this fascinates me so much, both in life and in literature-- I just find it so weird that when people get married, they love each other so much. Then the years add up, and there are these little shifts and resentments in the relationship, and all of a sudden, they don't love (or know) each other any more. How does this happen? Why doesn't someone say, "Hey, we need to stop and figure this out"? Anyway, I liked that this novel addresses this problem, and also says that a failed marriage is not inevitable. I also enjoyed the little injections of magic, and the idea that fate isn't certain.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 25, 2013
I liked certain parts of it, but others I found boring...
Since I really loved my psychology class in the summer semester, I was very interested in reading about the thoughts that go through the mind of a psychotic patient, and how at the time they seem to be right and beautiful, and they seem to make sense to them, yet they're entrapping them in their own selves. I understood how a suicidal psychotic patient might think, and that it's not only about despair or self loathing, it's also about them being exhausted of the years of uncured mental illness and need for freedom out of it.
This book was a good finale for my understanding of psychology :)
Since I really loved my psychology class in the summer semester, I was very interested in reading about the thoughts that go through the mind of a psychotic patient, and how at the time they seem to be right and beautiful, and they seem to make sense to them, yet they're entrapping them in their own selves. I understood how a suicidal psychotic patient might think, and that it's not only about despair or self loathing, it's also about them being exhausted of the years of uncured mental illness and need for freedom out of it.
This book was a good finale for my understanding of psychology :)
March 18, 2009
Very Virginia Woolf. The description on the back makes it sound like a fun little novel about a couple, but every character in the novel has layers and all the layers of all the characters ultimately intersect philosophically. Thought-provoking, satisfying--as I said, very Virginia Woolf.
August 13, 2023
I’m pretty sure I got this from a Little Free Library, because otherwise I cannot explain why this thing was on my bookshelf. Gaige really tries for a kind of poesy in her prose, but for every good line, there’s probably a dozen or more clunkers - sometimes cliche, sometimes straining. The characters are total stereotypes - the bookish girl from a small town, the overbearing mother, the all-American Midwestern boy who deludes himself into thinking he can fix the world’s ills. The only somewhat clever choice made, artistically, is that the climatic argument the couple has is depicted from the perspective of a poetaster bachelor who lives in the downstairs apartment. Everything else follows the predictable course of novels about marriage, perhaps anticipating the sensibilities of the Hollywood machine that would have been responsible for adapting this flimsy little thing, had they in fact chosen to do so.
There are some nice passages where Gaige describes the inner life of mentally ill patients, the “folded world” of the title and which she attempts to render contiguous with the worlds of the able-minded, but these comprise maybe 5% of the totality of the book and aren’t unalloyedly good, anyway, just better than the main body of the text. One wonders why she felt the need to wrap a frankly cliche melodrama of marriage around the bits that were the clear artistic demiurge that drove her to write this thing, in the first place. Could she not sustain it, not find a reason to focus on it that wasn’t entwined with a boring and insufferable do-good er? One of the two main protagonists, Charlie, chides his mother-in-law for the world’s lack of care for those who struggle with mental health crises, for their interference with the smooth functioning of the lives of the well, but while the book is partially about Charlie’s self-absorbed white guilt savior complex almost ruining his life, the literary structure oddly ends up recapitulating his otherwise true indictment of society’s fucked-up priorities, only undermining it in the sense that the inner lives of the unwell are apparently the only places where naked cliches aren’t the answer to the question of how people are feeling. In substance, it’s basically just a ripoff of Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, with a more self-consciously literary purple prose authorial voice and a happier, better-matched marriage under examination. It’s an easy read, but the Little Free Library is where it belongs, if it has to be folded into this already over-cluttered world of ours at all.
There are some nice passages where Gaige describes the inner life of mentally ill patients, the “folded world” of the title and which she attempts to render contiguous with the worlds of the able-minded, but these comprise maybe 5% of the totality of the book and aren’t unalloyedly good, anyway, just better than the main body of the text. One wonders why she felt the need to wrap a frankly cliche melodrama of marriage around the bits that were the clear artistic demiurge that drove her to write this thing, in the first place. Could she not sustain it, not find a reason to focus on it that wasn’t entwined with a boring and insufferable do-good er? One of the two main protagonists, Charlie, chides his mother-in-law for the world’s lack of care for those who struggle with mental health crises, for their interference with the smooth functioning of the lives of the well, but while the book is partially about Charlie’s self-absorbed white guilt savior complex almost ruining his life, the literary structure oddly ends up recapitulating his otherwise true indictment of society’s fucked-up priorities, only undermining it in the sense that the inner lives of the unwell are apparently the only places where naked cliches aren’t the answer to the question of how people are feeling. In substance, it’s basically just a ripoff of Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, with a more self-consciously literary purple prose authorial voice and a happier, better-matched marriage under examination. It’s an easy read, but the Little Free Library is where it belongs, if it has to be folded into this already over-cluttered world of ours at all.
December 19, 2020
I really wanted to enjoy this novel more than I did...especially considering that one of the protagonists is a social worker. When was the last time I read a story with social worker as a main character? Maybe never?
In the end, the book is a romance, one that more or less follows that genre's plot structure precisely, but with more depth of character and complexity of storyline than a genre romance. There is even the "grand gesture" moment at the end we've all become familiar with from Hollywood rom-coms. All of this would have been delicious in a literary novel if the character development hadn't fallen flat for me about midway through.
The social worker is so terrible at boundaries and turning down his empathy dial that it seems pathological---and yet, he is painted as a well-meaning if blundering saint of sorts. When he is given free pass after free pass by a Black social worker, one who fits neatly inside the "nurturing Black sidekick/friend/mentor" trope, I lost respect for the story. If Gaige is going to show how the white social worker gets away with being pathologically unboundaried, again and again, she has to at the very least comment on that in a meaninful way. I'm also exhausted and nauseated by that trope, in general---can't white writers stop themselves from reinforcing it yet?
All of this said, I admire Gaige's prose and think she is a master of sentence creation and did enjoy reading certain passages. But this novel falls far short of the bar set by _Sea Wife_ (which I read first). Disappointed, but I'll try others she has written.
In the end, the book is a romance, one that more or less follows that genre's plot structure precisely, but with more depth of character and complexity of storyline than a genre romance. There is even the "grand gesture" moment at the end we've all become familiar with from Hollywood rom-coms. All of this would have been delicious in a literary novel if the character development hadn't fallen flat for me about midway through.
The social worker is so terrible at boundaries and turning down his empathy dial that it seems pathological---and yet, he is painted as a well-meaning if blundering saint of sorts. When he is given free pass after free pass by a Black social worker, one who fits neatly inside the "nurturing Black sidekick/friend/mentor" trope, I lost respect for the story. If Gaige is going to show how the white social worker gets away with being pathologically unboundaried, again and again, she has to at the very least comment on that in a meaninful way. I'm also exhausted and nauseated by that trope, in general---can't white writers stop themselves from reinforcing it yet?
All of this said, I admire Gaige's prose and think she is a master of sentence creation and did enjoy reading certain passages. But this novel falls far short of the bar set by _Sea Wife_ (which I read first). Disappointed, but I'll try others she has written.
September 17, 2021
For the most part, I disliked this book. The "flowery" old-fashioned language (I'm sure there's a better word out there) really put me off at the beginning and made it hard to place the time period. I guess this is set in the 2000's or '10's? But it felt like the writing was from the 50's or 60's. The characters are idealized and lack well-roundedness.
But that lack is where the story rests - in their growth, discovery, and stretching beyond their comfort zones. Some of the descriptions of Charlie and his experience wrestling with the intimate ethical conundrums that define social work were disconcertingly familiar and rang so painfully true to my own experience in social work. I couldn't keep reading at one point, it was too eerie. I connected with Alice in unexpected ways too. And Opal provides a counterpoint to other narratives about people with mental illness, such that she is the author of her story, not her doctors. These things were all redeeming factors and what kept me reading.
So part of me wants to highly recommend this to social workers (especially new ones), and the other part is like, ugh, this was terrible, I'm glad I slogged through, but I don't want to inflict it on others.
But that lack is where the story rests - in their growth, discovery, and stretching beyond their comfort zones. Some of the descriptions of Charlie and his experience wrestling with the intimate ethical conundrums that define social work were disconcertingly familiar and rang so painfully true to my own experience in social work. I couldn't keep reading at one point, it was too eerie. I connected with Alice in unexpected ways too. And Opal provides a counterpoint to other narratives about people with mental illness, such that she is the author of her story, not her doctors. These things were all redeeming factors and what kept me reading.
So part of me wants to highly recommend this to social workers (especially new ones), and the other part is like, ugh, this was terrible, I'm glad I slogged through, but I don't want to inflict it on others.
February 29, 2024
“At the moment she was born, five hundred miles away, a small boy, his mouth ringed with jam, paused in his play on the carpet.”
The book begins with the voice of a fable, a fairy tale. There are no names, but there’s a force at work that I understood would bring this baby girl and this boy together. Alice and Charlie do meet and marry and have a child. He is a social worker, and she is a bookworm, who works in an office, having for some reason never gone to college. They are both naïve and sheltered by virtue of their personalities and their upbringing and so the reality of life after the honeymoon beginning is a shock. Their intense, idyllic love for one another produces an equal and opposite feeling of pain when betrayal—maybe too strong a word—pulls them apart. I happened upon this book because I saw a review of her more recent (2020) Sea Wife, and it wasn’t available, so I went to her backlist. I’ll read her again. (Why is it called The Folded World?)
The book begins with the voice of a fable, a fairy tale. There are no names, but there’s a force at work that I understood would bring this baby girl and this boy together. Alice and Charlie do meet and marry and have a child. He is a social worker, and she is a bookworm, who works in an office, having for some reason never gone to college. They are both naïve and sheltered by virtue of their personalities and their upbringing and so the reality of life after the honeymoon beginning is a shock. Their intense, idyllic love for one another produces an equal and opposite feeling of pain when betrayal—maybe too strong a word—pulls them apart. I happened upon this book because I saw a review of her more recent (2020) Sea Wife, and it wasn’t available, so I went to her backlist. I’ll read her again. (Why is it called The Folded World?)
May 23, 2025
I had high expectations for this book having loved her latest, "Heartwood" (despite it being a Jenna's pick-I usually avoid celebrity book club pics), but found both the writing and the story to be more than a little meh. This is a genre rating, so if it had been, say, a scifi book- a genre for which I have low to no expectations- it would have been a three star. The basic plot is fine, but the author went in a style direction that I have a hard time with unless it is brilliantly written. Most of the book's prose came off as an attempt to elevate both the writing and the characters feelings, but while it was supposed to bring depth to the character's emotions, it just came off as silly to this jaded reader. C'mon, forgetting words for common objects because you just got married? If that actually happened, your new spouse (assuming they were still compos mentis) would rush you to an emergency department for evaluation.
May 30, 2024
I didn't object to the journey the humble, happy couple Alice and Charlie go through in this story. I picked up the book for the potential of its premise and my curiosity on how the author would treat the subject matter. Weaving in the social work, patients and co-workers, and the protagonists' own struggles made for some interesting moments. Ultimately, I found the narrative satisfactory, but not compelling.
February 9, 2025
A brilliant book. Despite it being about heavy topics (mental illness), it's an easy read.
This book is about love and priorities as well. Charlie, the protagonist, wants to be a good man and wants to help as many people as possible. So he works as a mental health one-to-one and wants to help these mentally ill people but finds himself getting sucked into their lives at the expense of his marriage.
A great read.
This book is about love and priorities as well. Charlie, the protagonist, wants to be a good man and wants to help as many people as possible. So he works as a mental health one-to-one and wants to help these mentally ill people but finds himself getting sucked into their lives at the expense of his marriage.
A great read.
January 24, 2022
This is my second time reading this author and I think I am "folded" reading any more novels by her. I wanted to like Sea Wife and this book because of the cover art and synopses. Both stories dragged and this one was very fetched and irritating and the execution of the story was off. Sorry, cannot recommend.
February 27, 2022
A very emotional book. A young couple in love. Their mistakes and adventures. Kept me up through the night. Be careful of pick this book up before bed.
Charlie, the young father that is a too dedicated social worker thought, " Loneliness, the loss of love or the never finding of love, that's what drives people crazy.
Amen.
Charlie, the young father that is a too dedicated social worker thought, " Loneliness, the loss of love or the never finding of love, that's what drives people crazy.
Amen.
April 5, 2021
Quietly, beautifully written novel about marriage. Work. Babies. Mother in laws. Mental illness. Book stores. And the author can pack more emotion into a slender paragraph than anyone I’ve ever read.
May 26, 2017
Such a deliciously strong start... i guess that would have been difficult to keep up. 3= a 4 for the first few chapters, and a 2 for the rest
August 16, 2020
Beautiful prose
Great insight into messed up people. Lovely and in depth analysis of our feelings. Will read another bit
Y this author.
Great insight into messed up people. Lovely and in depth analysis of our feelings. Will read another bit
Y this author.
November 18, 2020
Some good moments but this book is trying to do too many things...most notably to convey madness and it's just a lot of work. Plus the relationship at the core is too cutesy and not believable...
February 23, 2021
This is my second Amity Gaige book. Her style is unique and I enjoy it. This story was very human. In her writing, I often feel the spotlight is shone on the inherent beauty of words. I like that.
April 28, 2023
This book is so beautifully written, I found myself sending quotes to friends because I just had to share it.
July 1, 2023
Too artsy for me, but an alright story.
January 13, 2018
Showcases the complexities of human nature and relationships. Charlie Shade's dedication to his patients (as a social worker) and to his family often conflict. Will love or duty prevail?
October 31, 2012
Why I really liked it is for the writing, which annoyed other readers. I happen to believe in beautiful rambling sentences because it is better than reading elementary ones. Someone mentioned that nothing happens in this story but that isn't really true. The things that happen do so beneath the surface. This novel of a young married couple turns from quirky and sweet to dark and bitter. Of course there is sadness in the character study, how can there not be character study when one of the main characters in the story is a social worker with a naive belief he can fix all the 'crazy' people out there? I think some readers were angered because the ending is too true to life, nothing explosive nor murderous happens even though the book flirts with the promise of it.Life can be that way to as relationships can burn and sort of fizzle out- a big fat dud. I admit, the ending wasn't anything that is going to change you, but it is still a really interesting book. Maybe I am just partial to quirky people, real and imagined. Truth is novels are an escape for many, and there aren't a lot of readers that want to invest in literature that hums as their own life does. They want explosions or mystery or hot affairs with vampires or heck, just an easy fix to a crappy life. You won't get that here though. Still I liked it... I look forward to her new novel when it is released. I think this is a writer to watch!
March 11, 2008
This is one of those books that seems better to me after I've finished and sat back to think about it than it did while I was reading it. Charlie, a social worker dealing with the mentally ill, and Alice, the young daughter of a librarian, meet and fall in love with the "better" qualities of the other. Once they are married, and the parents of twins, Charlie finds himself all-consumed by his work, and in particular one client named Opal. Alice, on the other hand, finds herself overwhelmed by parenthood and Charlie's absences. She seeks to escape through the books recommended by a local bookseller - who just happens to be one of Charlie's former clients. I found the writing initially difficult to get into - the author changes the character from whom's perspective she is telling the story every couple paragraphs - and given that many of the characters suffer from mental illness, this doesn't lend itself to the easiest to follow story. But, I did think that Gaige presented a very realistic picture of relationships - how people deal with their pasts and issues within the context of their marriages, and how the reasons we come to love someone can often turn out to be the reasons we cannot ultimately make the relationship work. Overall, this book also presents an enlightened view of the mentally ill and how they are and should be cared for in our society.
January 16, 2008
As much as I hate the word 'quirky' I am going to use it to describe this book and I mean that in a good way. I wasn't too sure what the heck was happening in the very beginning, but I am somewhat into the book now and I have to say that it's very well written. Some lines are so spot on in detail and feeling, and while I am a little anxious about the outcome of the characters, I think I am going to stick with this one.
Edited to add: I finished this the other day. I really liked it. I found the writing really descriptive and spot on and I could really relate to her portrayal of relationships.
Edited to add: I finished this the other day. I really liked it. I found the writing really descriptive and spot on and I could really relate to her portrayal of relationships.
May 18, 2009
Loooooooooved this. Gaige takes an ordinary story about ordinary lives -- neglected woman, golden-boy guy, chance meeting on the street, falling in love, twin baby girls -- and turns it into something utterly beautiful by the sheer force of language and passion.
My favorite passage: "... that the universe was treacherous only in that it would outlast you, and knew your death and slowly breathed you in your whole life, but that despite all this, there were small ruins all over the territory, the posts and beams of people who built there regardless, on fog, on blackness, on starlight, houses in which they were safe merely by being in them together." (282)
My favorite passage: "... that the universe was treacherous only in that it would outlast you, and knew your death and slowly breathed you in your whole life, but that despite all this, there were small ruins all over the territory, the posts and beams of people who built there regardless, on fog, on blackness, on starlight, houses in which they were safe merely by being in them together." (282)
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