S14:Ep272 - The Place Where They Buried Your Heart with Guest Christina Henry + House as a Character Book Recs

2026-02-04

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpodFacebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover.To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Christina Henry at christinahenry.net or on IG @authorchristinahenry In this week’s episode, our focus is on houses that are so important to a story that they essentially become a character. When we started thinking about this idea, we realized that Chicago writer Christina Henry would be a perfect guest...

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In this week’s episode, our focus is on houses that are so important to a story that they essentially become a character. When we started thinking about this idea, we realized that Chicago writer Christina Henry would be a perfect guest because her last two novels are focused on houses. Her most recent is titled The Place Where They Buried Your Heart and is about a neighborhood house that lures people in, causing heartache for neighbors as well as a sense of family among a handful of them. Prior to this novel, Christina wrote The House That Horror Built. We talk to Christina about the importance of houses in her stories and how a house can straddle setting and character.

In our book rec section, we continue the house idea with a range of titles in which houses are critically important—-we’ve got a memoir, a National Book Award winner, children’s fantasy, classic literature, and propulsive literary fiction.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry

2- The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

3- Howards End by E.M. Forster

3- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

3- Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu

4- Double Indemnity by James Cain

5- From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir by Alain Silver and James Ursini

6- Out by Natsuo Kirino

7- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

8- Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

9- The Mantis by Kotaro Osaka