The House No one Sees
- Vanessa Bettencourt
- Mar 23
- 2 min read
Book Info:
The House No One Sees by Adina King
Genre: Young Adult Poetry
Publishing Date: March 18, 2025
5 stars
So powerful, raw (honest) and sad. Verse and prose, switches from memories to present. Reflecting on her relationship with her addicted mother, awareness to opioids turning into deep adiction, family issues, second chances. It's well written, we can feel many emotions.
Synopsis:
Penelope Ross has always felt like a passenger in her mother’s fairytale – until the night of her 17th birthday, when she is forced to enter her own. After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a night with friends, Penny is forced into a kaleidoscope of memories locked inside the dark labyrinth of her childhood home. As Penny wanders between present and past—prose and verse—she must confront her mother’s opioid addiction to mend her fractured past. But the house is tricky. The house is impossible. It wants her to dig up the dead to escape. And as Penny walks through herself to find herself, she is not sure she has the courage to free the light she trapped inside.
Content Warning: addiction, parent drug use, bullying, food insecurity, child abuse and neglect
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About the Author:
Adina King is veteran English teacher from Maine. Aside from teaching high school and middle school, she has worked in book stores, played roller derby, and dabbled in dogsledding. She received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she studied with A.M. Jenkins, A.S. King, Shelley Tanaka, and Martha Brockenbrough. When she isn’t writing or covered in dirt from Olympic yard work, her natural habitat includes one or more of the following: roller skates, dogs, mountains, chickadees, music, and really excellent food.
Author Links:
Website: https://adinakingauthor.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mainelyadina/
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