Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak Healing and Home Improvement

My story writes Dominique Browning the editor in chief of House & Garden is about the way a house can express loss and then bereavement and then finally the rebuilding of a life. Around the House and in the Garden is a moving narrative culled from Brownings much-loved monthly editorial column about the solace and sense of self that can be found through tending to ones home. From building a high stone wall in the garden to learning that every kitchen deserves a good kitchen couch Browning reminds us that making a home is more than just a materialistic endeavor -- it is a way for us to comfort and reinvent ourselves to have the final word about what goes where...what feels comfortable what is life enhancing...and gives us strength to go out and embrace the world.