Puss Reboots: Blog: January 2024: Julia's House Goes Home

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Julia's House Goes Home: 01/08/24

Julia's House Goes Home by Ben Hatke (2021) is the conclusion of the Julia's House trilogy. Although it was on my wishlist, its release completely slipped by me until I saw a post about it on the author's Instagram.

Once again, Julia's house is on the move. Unfortunately it suffers a fall and one by one everyone is tossed from it. Julia begins the hunt for the house and reunites with its residents, one by one.

The motto of the house is that there's room for everyone. So cheerfully Julia invites everyone she meets along the way to live in the house once it's found. But even she knows that the house is only so big. How she handles that problem is the second big plot point of the book after the house's location.

Chart showing the relative placement of the three books on the Road Narrative Spectrum.

Like the previous two books, Julia's House Goes Home is on the Road Narrative Spectrum. The final book builds on the found family theme of the second book (33). This time the family's destination is the city (00). Their route there is once again an offroad one (66).

Five stars