Tuesday, May 3, 1966
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
N.C. Author's
Uses 'Camera9
By JOE DePRIEST
From an airplane the face
of the earth seems very small
and toylike. Towns appear as
dollhouses and their tiny in
habitants trot about the daily
business of living and dying.
In her second novel, "Ten
ants of the House," North
Carolina author Heather Ross
Miller pilots, as it were, a low
flying plane equipped with a
camera and zoom lens and
pauses briefly above the fic
tional town of Johnsboro, N. C,
recording vignettes of the res
idents. It is a special camera
Mrs. Miller employs: one that
sees not only the present
which, in the novel, is during
World War II, but the past as
well, and at all times the
thoughts and feelings of the
people.
"Tenants of the House" is a
laconic prose-poem that psins
a deft and evocative portrait
of a southern town and a hand
ful of its inhabitants. A south
ern novel yes. But stripped
of its southernisms, Johnsboro
could be any town and the
people anybody.
It is amazing how much
Mrs. Miller accomplishes in
this slender little novel.
Chapter One looks into the
past to the founder of Johns
boro Preacher Murdock who
lived to see "His place"
his "new Canaan" oeverrun
by the worldly and who died
an "unhappy spirit" alone on
Murdock Hill which overlooks
the village of Johnsboro.
Then the aluminum factory
came to Johnsboro and so did
the workers who lived in little
numbered houses.
"Johnsboro looked very
much like a doll town made of
dollhouses. But its people were
very much imperfect, as real
people should surely be. And
so was the God who beheld
them," Mrs. Miller writes.
Who are the people? There
was Michael and Linda Earl
Glenn who sit out most of the
war safely because Michael
has an eye defect. But he is
finally accepted by the Serv
ice, crosses the ocean and nev
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er returns. There is Mrs. Byrd,
whom the .Negroes suspect is
a witch because she smokes
cigarettes and is an Unbeliev
er. And there is Mrs. Byrd's
daughter Rebecca whom Gene
Boyette had fallen in love with
the night he saw her standing
naked in her home. Young
Boyette goes to the war too,
bearing the silence of his love
within him, returns, finds
Johnsboro unchanged. There
are the Negroes: the fat Beat
rice and her 99-year-old moth
er who drowns in a drainage
ditch; the children Christa and
sassy Sunday Jo.
None of these people is por
trayed in full. Mrs. Miller's
"camera" sweeps, records
certain scenes, and she edits
them together into a minor
fresco that suggests rather
than explores.
'Never fear: "Tenants of the
House" is not a mere hodge
podge of what William Styron
onced called "Dixie baby
talk." It is a true song of life
and death, the young and the
old. Mrs. Miller's prose is
clean, rhythmical and cap
tures elusive emotional quali
ties and natural settings in dew
drop compression. The dia
logue is realistic earthy
when the occasion calls for it.
"Tenants of the House," un
like Mrs. Miller's first novel,
"The Edge of the Woods," in
corporates more characters, a
greater span of time but un
dertakes to do so in the same
small number of pages. Some
may complain that the novel
suffers as a result. Perhaps
so. The nearest thing to a
thread of story comes from
Gene Boyette's love for Re
becca Byrd which culminates
one night shortly after the war
in Preacher Murdock's old cab
in on Murdock Hill.
But the novel's brevity saves
it from the tedium that it
could easily have fallen into
if it were twice as long. As
is, "Tenants of the House"
moves swiftly, capturing read
er interest, evoking the mood
of a small town in the early
1940's blackouts, arrivals,
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departures and ends, much
to the reader's regret, just like
a life ends, when a person
least expects or wants it to
end. About the people of Johns
boro, Mrs. Miller writes: "To
morrow they would be melted,
sucked up in the light to make
more clouds and more rain."
This reader hopes that on
her next "flight" Mrs. Miller
will linger for a longer time
over the town and people she
chooses to use her magic
"aerial photography" on. And
maybe she will land her craft
and set out on foot for an even
closer look into the joy, mys
tery and abiding sadness of
things.
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