In October House by Bonny Barry Sanders, we discover asequence of memory segments that flash back andhaunt us--sometimes with the fantasy of allegory, sometimes with painful realism--but with all segments united through the many years and between the four walls of an old house. The architecture of the houseserves to suggest both an actual place and a conscious,mental construct of qualities. It evokes a transcendence. Bird song, musical structure, and strong assonance underpin this work. The architecture of the book, like the old house, is defined as well as fluid. Like the architecture of an orchestral piece, it beginswith the tonic chord, moves, digresses, modulates, presents variations upon themes, and finally returnsto the tonic chord. The book explores the ways we must find strength to go home, notnecessarily to a place, but to "the language we would speak again.
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