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The Alchemy of Being a House is a genre-defying memoir of survival, spirit, and self-reclamation. Told through the intertwined voices of Jen and Ruth—one human, one dog, both facets of the same soul— it explores childhood trauma, caregiving, chronic illness, and queer becoming with poetic depth and hard-won grace. As Jen returns to her mother’s crumbling house in the Deep South, she uncovers not just family secrets, but the many selves she’s carried, buried, and begun to heal. This is a story about building home within the wreckage, about loving what’s been broken, and the quiet alchemy that makes a life more whole, not in spite of the cracks, but because of them.