The Earth House

The Earth House

infobox Book |
name = The Earth House


author = Jeanne DuPrau
country = United States
language = English
genre = Young adult
publisher = New Chapter Press
release_date = May 1993
media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
isbn = ISBN-10:0449908143 ISBN-13:978-0449908143 "The Earth House" is a 1993 novel by Jeanne DuPrau.In the book, two women visit a "zen center", and replan their lives.

Plot Summary

They hadn't pictured themselves as the sort of people to take up Eastern spiritual practice, but on their first visit to a zen center, two women discover something that speaks to them on a level deeper than their everyday experience, and they begin to make a new plan for their lives. They begin to consider giving up their suburban comforts and build a house beside a monastery in the mountains.As the walls of the house go up, the two women make and re-make plans, wrestle with a chainsaw, learn to make windows, and set up a computer powered by the sun. Their spiritual practice transforms their vision of the house, and the building of it transforms them both.


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