In the House of Blue Lights

by Susan Neville

A collection of short stories by Susan Neville. The house referred to in the title is a specific place in midwestern American folklore, but the blue also refers to the blue of the globe as seen from space and the blue lights that flicker behind closed eyelids in the house of the imagination.

169 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Susan Neville is an American short-story writer and a professor at Butler University. She won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1984.

Reviews

[Mary Kinietz · Rating 4 out of 5]

We were fortunate to have the author come to our book group. I loved one passage from “August”: about buying unfinished projects at garage sales, “They were under tables at every sale, unfinished projects that everyone seemed to have. He found them wherever they were hidden, and Mina bought them for a nickel - the sweaters knitted and not sewn together, or missing a sleeve, the half-finished afghans, the needlepoint chair covers missing the background. Nothing anyone bought made the women behind card tables collecting money any happier, the weight of idle yarn finally lifted, the possibility of a fresh start.

[Sara]

susan neville's book, the invention of flight is flannery o'connor award winner