A review by coco_lolo
Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye

3.0

This was such a bizarre little book. It's not something that would generally work for me, but I found Your House is On Fire, Your Children All Gone delightfully creepy in its presentation of callous violence. The village becomes its own entity, ripe with superstition and indifference—something in many ways worse than malevolence. I enjoyed the way each chapter could stand on its own but how they all connected to make a whole. Some of the characters we spent time with were really interesting, others not so much, but this didn't affect my reading because the book isn't about character development, or plot, or anything we're conventionally taught to look for. It's all about tone and isolation and the desperate, ugly parts we so readily overlook in ourselves.