Hunting Houses
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.
Tessa is a thirty-seven-year-old real estate agent living in Montreal. She adores her husband and three young sons, but she’s deeply unhappy and questioning the set of choices that have led to her present life.
After a surprising run-in with Francis, her ex-boyfriend and first love, Tessa arranges to see him. During the three days before their meeting, she goes about her daily life — there’s swimming lessons, science projects, and dirty dishes. As the day of her meeting with Francis draws closer she has to decide if she is willing to disrupt her stable, loving family life for an uncertain future with him.
With startling clarity and emotional force, Fanny Britt gives us a complex portrait of a woman and a marriage from the inside out.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Fanny Britt has this light but cynical way of capturing the female experience. It was there in her graphic novel, Jane, the Fox & Me, and it’s here in Hunting Houses, translated from French. Her narrator, Tessa, examines her own existence warily, trying to figure out whether the day-to-day can be both banal and satisfying. This is a great, relatable read about a woman enduring adulthood, wondering how she got there and which pieces of her previous life are worth holding onto.
