{"id":13793,"date":"2021-10-25T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13793"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:43:35","slug":"a-weird-great-giant-russian-novel-about-a-school-run-by-its-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/10\/a-weird-great-giant-russian-novel-about-a-school-run-by-its-children.html","title":{"rendered":"A Weird, Great, Giant Russian Novel About a School Run By Its Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I review Mariam Petrosyan\u2019s <em>The Gray House<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026 The House demands a reverent attitude. A sense of mystery. Respect and awe. It can accept you or not, shower you with gifts or rob you of everything you have, immerse you in a fairy tale or a nightmare. Kill you, make you old, give you wings.\u2026 It\u2019s a powerful and fickle deity, and if there\u2019s one thing it can\u2019t stand, it\u2019s being reduced to mere words. For that it exacts payment. Now, with you duly cautioned, we can continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>The Gray House<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/reviews\/a-puzzle-box-book\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I review Mariam Petrosyan\u2019s The Gray House: \u201c\u2026 The House demands a reverent attitude. A sense of mystery. Respect and awe. It can accept you or not, shower you with gifts or rob you of everything you have, immerse you in a fairy tale or a nightmare. 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