After the protagonist of a novel leaves a carnival with her lover and her daughter, she finds a young woman who has walked out of a stream and fallen asleep in front of this place. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this place, which is “spiteful” and “full of a baby’s venom” in the opening of a novel that describes how it scared away Howard and Buglar.
ANSWER: 124 Bluestone Road [prompt on the house from Beloved]
[10h] Miranda Silver disappears beneath her house, which is hostile to her black girlfriend Ore, in this author’s novel White Is For Witching. In a novel by this author, Bird searches for her white-passing stepsister, whom her mother had sent to Clara.
ANSWER: Helen Oyeyemi (The novel is Boy, Snow, Bird.)
[10e] The white townsfolk ostracizes Marie Toussaint in a Tananarive Due novel about a haunted house known by this adjective. A Southern Gothic story by Flannery O’Connor claims a man described by this adjective “is Hard to Find.”
ANSWER: good [accept The Good House or “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”]
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