| The Earth House | |
| Author: | Jeanne DuPrau |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Adult non-fiction |
| Publisher: | New Chapter Press |
| Release 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.
The Earth House was a finalist for the 1993 Stonewall Book Award.[1]
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.