Tiny House, Big Fix
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When her ex-husband finds out, he insists that the girls come live with him in another city. Desperate to keep her daughters with her in their home community, Sadie is forced to rethink her dream of living in a full-sized house.
In the short term, she moves her girls into a co-worker's apartment. Then, with the help of her friends and daughters, she builds a tiny house. In the process she finds living with less has its rewards and that living in a small space brings her family closer together.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Her thriller, The Almost Wife, hit the Canadian bestseller lists in 2021. She taught for nearly a decade in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and now mentors writers online. Gail Anderson-Dargatz lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This tiny book had a long set-up about building a tiny house for a single mother and her two young daughters. Unfortunately, that rather long set-up was followed by what seemed to be a very rushed ending that revealed nothing at all of the experience of constructing one of the little houses. I'm not even sure what age group this is aimed at, but I have a feeling that just about any age group will be equally bored by this one. There's just not enough flesh on the bone to make this one seem at all real.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A quick read, set in modern times with themes surrounding divorce, housing shortages, women in nontraditional trades employment, and tiny houses. I enjoyed reading it. I would have recommended it to my 6th grade students when I was their teacher. I think the publisher recommends it for older students but I think Middle Schoolers could appreciate it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A small book with a big message. This book was a great joy to read and very descriptive about what tiny houses are like to build and to live in. "Tiny House, Big Fix" gives you great incite to the purpose of these tiny homes.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I had high hopes for this novella. Unfortunately the story was so scarce as to be barely there. Instead it read more as a narrative promotional for the tiny house movement. I love tiny houses but I didn't enjoy having the characters sell me on the benefits of tiny houses. I would have liked to see more character development. Sadie's daughter, Zoe, was the most interesting person in the story with her brattiness and self centered teenage manners. The rest of the names that floated around were little more than stereotypes - the irascible boss, the sour potential land lady, the ever loyal best friend, the selfish jerk ex husband, the patient potential new boyfriend. It was disappointing.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I learned about tiny homes! Cute quick read but interesting to know more about the tiny home movement. Made me take a closer look at them and am hooked!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A little gem of a book. Quite an interesting read. Creativity and resilience in action in this book. The story was quite compelling and page turning.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Short and sweet. When you are faced with a divorce, raising two daughters and trying to find affordable housing, going back to basics is what your life needs. A feel good story .
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I was really hoping for more detail about tiny houses but the story focuses on the desperation of a mother caught in a seemingly un-winnable situation when she finds herself and her daughters facing homelessness. Until everything conveniently falls into place, of course. The author hand-waves away some issues that, in real life, would be a constant worry for these characters. Makes a nice point about how having "stuff" actually gets in the way of our relationships with each other but treats the real problems facing the main character too superficially.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting story of the new "rage" of the Tiny House market. Well written and explains some of the hardships of life with the high cost of living.