New York: Faber & Faber, (1992). "Novelist Joe Croomer was living in a small converted garage with his wife Heather when he undertook to build their first real home - a magnificent Queen Anne Victorian. As Joe built, so he wrote. This book follows to day-to-month construction of that home, from foundations to fretwork, through the long Texas days of shovel to earth, hammer to nail, dream to reality." 195 pp.