The memoir follows Giffels' funny, poignant, and confounding journey, as he and his wife and a colorful collection of helpers turn a money pit into a livable house. But the story's heart lies deeper in the series of personal hardships that call into question what home really means. Illustrated.
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The memoir follows Giffels' funny, poignant, and confounding journey, as he and his wife and a colorful collection of helpers turn a money pit into a livable house. But the story's heart lies deeper in the series of personal hardships that call into question what home really means. Illustrated.
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David Giffels' work All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House is a study in the way this man regards the process of repairing and restoring a home. One learns the completion of an effort is a place of success and an uncomfortable position where the next step is find another item to repair. The process and the hands-on approach to the project is perhaps of more importance than the completed state. He bonds with various males in his family and friends in his endeavor, but it is a highly personal journey he dives into. The ultimate goal of provider is an important element to house his growing family. There are a few engaging pages from the wife's point of view, but the book is an insightful and interesting book about his love affair with the decrepit mansion and their vision of restoring this house into their home. It is peppered with musical references and Akron historal facts that made it even more interesting to this local reviewer.
Booktraveler
Aug 3, 2008
Life as it Happens
When you start a book engagingly reviewed in the New York Times (Spring 2008) you feel you are simply passing some time while filling in a few details. Let me say, this is a thought-provoking individual's tour through cultural anthropology, sociology, and psychology written with a wry sense of self-insight and commitment rarely seen in a society obsessed with instant consumption and celebrity. Certainly on the surface, author Giffels has given us an opportunity to reflect on our own and his chronic obsession with the elusive American dream of one family, one house, (excuse me) one home and big box hardware stores. But more importantly, he depicts the 21st century's pioneer settler in the best tradition of the 1980's when many a home was rescued from demolition and renewed life flowed into decayed cities once abandoned for post-war suburbs. Giffel's personal passion for local history, architectural, botanical and otherwise, makes for an absorbing, sometimes astonishing read. We come to understand why the cheeky, gutsy youthfulness of this intelligent, college-educated, successful male is intrinsic to the hard-earned, sometimes serendipitous successes he experiences, while crafting an alternative organic lifestyle based on less consumption & increased recycling. This is not a book about living green per se; it is about making choices every single day that will resonate well with future generations. Unanticipated failures become mere challenges against the CD/radio backdrop of his favorite iconic punk rock geniuses. To take Akron, a city long diminished in the minds of the country's citizens, and respectfully share his passion for its industrial roots, working class heroes, and weekend sports speaks volumes about this young author. If he shows up at your local indie bookstore, definitely make time to listen to him. Now, if only he had a weekly syndicated column for those of us not fortunate enough to be "his beloved neighborhood." Bravo to Mr. Giffels and his indomitable wife, Gina.
