Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for his second book The Soul of a New Machine, a non-fiction story that tracks a team of engineers at Data General Corporation working on an innovative new computer. It follows the life of the project and those involved in it for over a year.

Scared his follow-up would not live up to his Pulizer-prize-winning work, Kidder spent a good amount of time writing his next book called House. House is about a house in Massachusetts, but it’s not just about the nails and planks. It follows the conflicts and personalities involved.

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