The HundredYear House Author:Michael McDowell The Hundred-Year House takes the reader from cars stuck in the sand of Northwest coastal beaches to glacial water too muddy to drink in the Cascade mountains. In poems of place ranging from clamming on the Long Beach Peninsula to meteor showers on Mountain Hood, the book presents life in a landscape that puzzles and soothes. Tsunamis, ice-storms... more », and mosquitoes provide a backdrop to a family learning to stay put.« less