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Haunted Houses

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At the opening, they’re children: Jane is aloof, Grace is rebellious and Emily has too many thoughts.

For me the book ranks alongside Truman Capote's writing at its best – that lucid foraging for motive, that astute understanding of atmosphere and place. Composer and author] Paul Bowles read Haunted Houses and we had a conversation through the mail – he always wrote on onionskin because it cost less to mail it from Morocco – and he said he liked the novel but he got the characters confused like Dostoyevsky [laughs]. Tillman charts the girls' unsteady drift into womanhood, revealing the multiple forms of inheritance - family, gender, culture - that a girl must swallow or rebel against. But I loved this element of the book, overall Haunted Houses felt like a guilty pleasure, it felt like I was peering into the lives of these women, seeing their ugly sides and mentalities towards themselves, their relationships and work, sides that the average person would rather die than reveal to those around them. It makes a lot of sense to me that I live with a bass player, since time and rhythm are extremely important to my writing.Grace believes her dolls come alive at night and talk against her, and has a mother who likes animals more than people.

Haunted Houses is about the past within the present, the inescapability of private memory and public history. Emily comforted herself with the idea that plots were like skirts, you either did or you didn't use things like that.

Today, the sad young woman is probably publishing's highest grossing trope, and the cultural 'market' in general is finally interested in the strained interiority of girls.

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