When writer LaTonya Yvette first began working on her upcoming book, Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It (September 2024, The Dial
), she was not a homeowner. As a lifelong New York City renter and single mom with two kids, purchasing a house upstate, “was this rite of passage that did not feel available to me,” she says. Yvette researched it obsessively, saved her book advance as a down payment, and then took advantage of first-time home buyers’ programs to get a 173-year-old colonial-style house in Athens on the Hudson River, which she dubbed The Mae House.
The refurbished dining table came from a high school’s art room and is etched with the hearts, drawings, and musings of teenagers.
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