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Hannah her husband Michael and their daughter Molly have moved to Indianapolis and purchased a dilapidated one hundred year old mansion that will be their home While clearing out the attic in anticipation of renovations Hannah finds a box containing photographs of the architect and one time resident of the house Andrew Decker Moving from curiosity to fascination to obsession Hannah becomes consumed with learning everything there is to know about the life and death of the mysterious architect and his family She combs through newspaper articles and obituaries seeks out his grandchildren and enlists the help of her friends All the while Andrew becomes an increasingly central part of her life She thinks about him she dreams about him and eventually she begins to see him As the pieces of Andrew Decker s life begin to come together the pieces of Hannah s are falling apart When a tragedy cuts to the core of what Hannah holds most dear in this world she begins to spiral receding further into the past and away from her family and friends Ultimately Hannah will have to decide whether the past is a place she learns from or becomes lost in Load Bearing A NovelHannah a young mother with a troubled past moves to Indiana when her much older husband gets a dream job offer and convinces him to buy a historic but run down mansion built by a locally renowned architect who died under mysterious circumstances Hannah soon becomes wrapped up in the epic scale of renovations and obsessed with the history of the house and the life of the long dead architect while her marriage begins to crumble brick by brick. Load Bearing booklet Admittedly I found there to be some sections that dragged in the first half of the novel with the finer details of taking on the renovation and as things picked up in the latter half of the novel I couldn t help but wish for it to go places even darkerspookier But in the end I appreciated Hartsock s grounding of the story and characters in reality. Load bearing masonry wall section The result if a finely crafted novel depicting a woman trapped in a marriage who finally comes to terms with unresolved trauma and realizes what she truly wants and needs out of life The renovation of the house the mystery of the architect s death and other events are the tunnels through which she must travel to come out into the light on the other side I especially found the scenes detailing Hannah s grief and her domestic sparring with her husband exceptionally well done. Load bearing wall pros All in all Load Bearing a great title with double meaning is a well written piece of contemporary literary fiction with a strong psychological bent that I would highly recommend to anyone who enjoys reading such things English That s right I gave my own book five stars This is what it s about Hannah her husband Michael and their daughter Molly have moved to Indianapolis and purchased a dilapidated one hundred year old mansion that will be their home While clearing out the attic in anticipation of renovations Hannah finds a box containing photographs of the architect and one time resident of the house Andrew Decker. Load Bearing bookkeeping Moving from curiosity to fascination to obsession Hannah becomes consumed with learning everything there is to know about the life and death of the mysterious architect and his family She combs through newspaper articles and obituaries seeks out his grandchildren and enlists the help of her friends All the while Andrew becomes an increasingly central part of her life She thinks about him she dreams about him and eventually she begins to see him. Load bearing thermal insulation block As the pieces of Andrew Decker s life begin to come together the pieces of Hannah s are falling apart When a tragedy cuts to the core of what Hannah holds most dear in this world she begins to spiral receding further into the past and away from her family and friends Ultimately Hannah will have to decide whether the past is a place she learns from or becomes lost in English Hannah and her wealthy husband Michael buy a historical mansion with the intention of renovating it to be a home for them and their young daughter While renovating Hannah finds old photos of the architect of the house Andrew Decker She decides to find out what exactly happened to Andrew only to learn that his life and death were complicated than it may have looked on the surface. Book Load bearington Load Bearing has a bit of everything mystery romance and tragedy Hannah s attempt at creating a home for her family is disrupted not only by the mystery surrounding Andrew Decker but by her own past the cracks in her marriage and the company of a local history professor. Load bearing mastic This is a beautiful and memorable book that I found myself thinking about long after finishing it I don t think there was anything about this book I didn t love I would recommend Load Bearing to anyone who loves an emotional story with realistic complex characters and a gorgeous setting English I really enjoyed this book and on multiple levels It s a great historical novel set in the present day about a couple who buys and renovates an old house in Indianapolis The people who built and lived in the old house are the historical part that comes alive as the wife seeks to learn about them and their fates particularly the architect The language was crisp with many phrases and sentences that I had to go back and re read because I enjoyed letting them play out again but the plot was also well paced advancing the action until I read the last third at a much insistent rate wanting to know what happens to who and how It s not always easy to balance the prose and the plot but this book does that And as a resident of the Indianapolis area I enjoyed the many familiar references and locales imagining those that weren t real and placing them where I thought the author might this was definitely a great Hoosier read I d recommend this book if you have an interest in history Indiana architecture old houses love relationships sleuthing or cabinetry I felt this was a very solid debut novel and I definitely look forward to future work from this author English