"This is a novel of great beauty. Step by step, it works its way deep into the interior lives of vanished family, sifting through evidence to solve mysteries, re-judge sorrows, and think, over and over, about forgiveness. An intense, exacting, and extraordinary book." —Joan Silber, author of Household Words and The Size of the World
"Part history, and part hypothesis, Kathleen Hill’s family memoir is a lyrical evocation of three generations whose spirits live on in those dwelling places that they have loved. This is a haunted book in the best sense: these lives, these spirits, beautifully portrayed, will stay with you forever." —Charles Baxter, author of The Soul Thief
"Who Occupies This House asks us, brilliantly, to consider and reconsider the long lines of suffering and the legacies of the past. But it is also a narrative of passion and faith and sweetness and long affections as the Conroys and the Carmodys seek and find their family. With fierce intelligence and lustrous prose Kathleen Hill takes the reader on a remarkable journey stretching from Ireland to America and back again. I was transported by this book."—Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street
"Kathleen Hill brilliantly applies the concept of post-traumatic stress to the Irish-American experience...While this novel is non-linear, a kind of psychological scrapbook, Hill's vivid images and resonant phrasing sustain coherence….Hill is a superb stylist." —
New York Irish History