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• Acclaimed author Marilyn Brown uses the background of World War II to portray a family's inner-battle on Puget Sound.
• The well-woven plot shows a family straining to stay together while wars-both literal and figurative-rage around them..
• Critics say the novel is Brown's best work. A "good read-funny, scary, lyrical."

They were afraid . . .

Living on the edge of the Pacific ocean, the Callister family and their neighbors had every reason to believe that the Navy yard at Puget Sound would not be safe if there were attacks from forces across the sea.

Lindy is aware that her father draws blueprints of gunwales that fasten guns to the battleships sailing out to the Hawaiian Islands. She is intrigued by the Navy yard, and especially one of the cleaning girls with gold hair. When she learns that Sarah lives in the dark house on the hill, she wants her father to offer her a ride home.

The mysterious activities of Sarah's family prove to be alarming indulgences that threaten the "soundness" of the Callister family. "There are varieties of wars raging always," Marilyn Brown reminds us. "The battles we fight today are just as real in many ways as those of yesterday. Our methods of fighting them have changed."

Reviews-

Mesmerizing! A hauntingly beautiful story. Brown's richly textured prose style is reminiscent of Eudora Welty's--lyrical, sensuous, evocative. House on the Sound is a literary triumph!

 Marilyn Brown has given us her best work in this memoir-novel of childhood on Puget Sound from 1940-1944. A good read--funny, scary, lyrical. With memorable characters . . . my favorite is Grandfather McKinsey.

 House on the Sound uses the legends and archetypes of danger in the woods to give us a child's view of two families making war in different ways.