Tag: Gone-Away Lake
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For fans of Gone-Away Lake
Today, while doing incredibly domestic things like reorganizing my kitchen cabinets, I listed again to this episode of This American Life. In “The House on Loon Lake,” a couple of kids find an abandoned house in the woods. Inside, it’s filled with stuff–from food still in the cupboard to letters to clothing. Along the way, the…
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Sheer magic
The other night, I fell in love with two kids named Portia and Julian. They’re cousins and just happen to discover this lake that is no more, the wonderful, old, abandoned houses that surround it, and two quirky siblings that can’t quite let go of the past. And as I was reading, I kept trying…
