

Together, the two unwind the lonely paths of their twin worlds-big and small-and trace the stories that entwine them, setting the stage for a meeting rooted in loss, but defined by love. Searching for answers, Alex begins corresponding with Myra. The room is his own bedroom, and the Mansion is his family’s home, handed down from the grandmother who disappeared mysteriously when Alex was a child. Myra Malone, proprietor of said minuscule mansion would quickly and firmly remind me that her tiny house is not a dollhouse, it’s hard to see this title and not think back to the short-lived but intense infatuation I had with the Barbie Dreamhouse as a kid. The pair show him the Minuscule Mansion, and Alex is shocked to recognize a reflection of his own life mirrored back to him in minute scale. Myra herself is tethered to the Mansion by mysteries she can’t understand-rooms that appear and disappear overnight, music that plays in its corridors.Īcross the country, Alex Rakes, the scion of a custom furniture business, encounters two Mansion fans trying to recreate a room.

Myra’s stories have created legions of fans who breathlessly await every blog post, trade photographs of Mansion-modeled rooms, and swap theories about the enigmatic and reclusive author.

A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling and unforgettable novel by Audrey Burges.įrom her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of readers worldwide.
