The Earth House
| Author | Jeanne DuPrau |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult |
| Publisher | New Chapter Press |
Publication date | May 1993 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-449-90814-3 |
| OCLC | 28139679 |
The Earth House is a 1993 memoir by American author Jeanne DuPrau. It is not a young adult novel—because it is non-fiction.
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.