Pink House, Blue House Tales of a Gen X Chameleon

"In Pink House, Blue House, Leah Nagely traces the currents of her life through a series of homes - pink and blue, past and present, sacred and secular. Growing up amid the early waves of divorce in 1970s America, she navigates shifting familial landscapes, church pews, and rotary-dial phone calls that stretch across state lines. From childhood negotiations of love and belonging to the relentless pursuit of something vast enough to hold it all, her story unfolds in the spaces between nostalgia and reckoning. With poetic clarity and raw vulnerability, Nagely explores the ways we try to contain love, the inevitable floods and droughts, and the ultimate surrender to its wild, uncontainable flow."
- Jenny Forrester, editor of Mountain Bluebird Magazine and author of Love: The Art of Cherishing the World

Leah Nagely is a writer, civil engineer, musician, and mom based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published in Tangled Locks Journal, Open Secrets, and Reading and Traveling.
Find her band Piefight on Bandcamp and her
Substack Civil Engineer into Pavement.