A review by apatrick
The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai

4.0

This was good enough for me to recommend to people who like contemporary fiction. It tells the story in three parts. First, in the late '90s, Zee and her husband move into the family mansion's guest house. Various secrets are uncovered, and just when you start thinking you'd love to know more about the generation before this one, Makkai obliges you by telling that story in the second section of the book. Naturally, more secrets are identified, finally explained in the last section of the book, set twenty years prior to the second section.

I like this approach to telling a story, and the story itself is good, too.