Author Dave Eggers and artist Júlia Sardà spin a quirky historical
event into a whimsical and tall-ish true tale of American ingenuity.
Make way for history as only Dave Eggers could stage it. It all started
when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman
Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her
a mansion, hence the "Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry
died and Annie was hoodwinked--losing all but the mansion--she and her
son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the
town wanted those pigs out. Who could have guessed that Annie and her
crew would remove the whole mansion instead--rolling it away slowly on
logs--while she and her son were still living in it? Narrated with
metafictional flair, this delightfully illustrated picture book is proof
positive that nonfiction can be as lively and artful as any storybook.