Novel · second edition

The Family’s Weather

A voice built for rooms and a voice built for truth, and the long work of figuring out that neither is yours.

Materials: a house of smoke, inherited pressure systems
Forecast: unchanged since childhood; subject to revision
Extent: 140 pages
Edition: second, 2026
Published: HERT

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The weather of this room

Three of forty

A family portrait with a red band across the eyes — Portrait

A pocket watch held in an open hand — Watch

Behind the door

A self may not be a place we arrive at, but a shape we keep returning to — and it was only ever the returning, and not the shape, that could truly be called a life.

The maps under this room

This room stands on these 2 cartographies. Each is free to take.

Cartography of the Becoming SelfThe self is an evolving pattern of relations, neither a hidden object nor a freely chosen story.Take the map →The Embodied Narrative SelfThe stories we tell about ourselves are made possible, and limited, by the body.Take the map →