Présentation de l'éditeur
Lost Dogs and Fireplace Archaeology is about the children of the men and women in the US Army who grow up going to ten different schools, lose and find friends at every post, and the pieces of themselves they leave behind every time they move.
Most army posts are big and have lots of open space or forest with old abandoned buildings, proving grounds, headquarters with dumpsters full of cool "military secrets" around the back, and to any ten, eleven, twelve-year-old, it feels like you have the run of the place. It's as if you live in a world that's a bit different from the outside world with wider streets and little traffic, city-states governed by their own laws, never too crowded, each post with a culture of its own. At the same time it also feels like there is this giant safety net around everything. It won't let you fall too hard, and out of that the house spirit is created, out of the the collected memories, laughter, sighs, rage, the obligatory sliver of your soul you donate to every house you live in. The house spirit is composed of all of us and it does what it can to protect and comfort everyone passing through its walls.
Most army posts are big and have lots of open space or forest with old abandoned buildings, proving grounds, headquarters with dumpsters full of cool "military secrets" around the back, and to any ten, eleven, twelve-year-old, it feels like you have the run of the place. It's as if you live in a world that's a bit different from the outside world with wider streets and little traffic, city-states governed by their own laws, never too crowded, each post with a culture of its own. At the same time it also feels like there is this giant safety net around everything. It won't let you fall too hard, and out of that the house spirit is created, out of the the collected memories, laughter, sighs, rage, the obligatory sliver of your soul you donate to every house you live in. The house spirit is composed of all of us and it does what it can to protect and comfort everyone passing through its walls.
