What to say about this book? It took me a while to read and I was confused for most of the book. The ending leaves a lot of things unresolved but that somehow seems the point. This is a book that demands to be read more than once. And through the difficulty, this book was also a refuge. Like the comfort of coming home. A place to disappear to. This is one that I’ll be thinking about for years to come. The feeling of this book reminds me of reading house of leaves when I was a teenager. The weirdness and lack of clarity is the point. Like looking at the world but everything has fuzzy edges.

The premises are quite unusual: a boarding school for the disabled, where children enter at the age of six and leave at 18, with little or no contact with the outside world, an outside world that is both feared and fantasised about by the residents. Inside the boarding school, the residents give themselves laws and rules and the adults, who are there, are either accomplices or victims of the internal order, of the division into tribes, of a society that is formed according to rules that seem to be borrowed from Lord of the Flies. The book is immense - it is no coincidence that it took the author eighteen years to write it - and contains an infinity of stories, adventures and legends that are somehow connected, full of the fierce logic that can only be traced back to childhood mythogenesis.
The only part that I think doesn't fit in is the epilogue: the desire to show us the kids as adults is a stretch. Their loss of poetry makes them irritating and childish in the true sense of the word.

There was much to enjoy here, but I found I couldn't connect with it. I'd read more from this author in the future though.

Harry Potter meets Monster House. A very interesting read, and one that fans of sci-fi, Monster House (movie), and Harry Potter would find interesting and pleasing.

An excellent story that one must read to experience.

The plot with the changing narrators, different time sequences, and unclear settings was too vague and confusing to follow. Did not finish.

One of the most enthralling reads of recent memory. I love the setting of a shifting, living, sentient house which is bigger on the inside than it appears from the outside, and which houses students in wheelchairs, missing limbs, and are generally considered disabled and not "whole" to the outside world. But the house knows differently. Yet when troubles arise with outside pressures and mysterious student deaths, things must begin to change. Fantasy fiction on another level.

The gray house is a complex tale of differently able boys in a boarding school faced with numerous difficulties especially with their fellow residents, there is little love within this establishment, just to think a pair of red sneakers was the catalyst for which pheasant was remove from his well model group by the request of the other group members, because he dared to be different. This tale is fill with complex scenes, it is one of those books that keeps you thinking long after you have read it, very interesting indeed.

The Gray House has an interesting premise. Tribes of students with varying disabilities live in the house, surrounded by neighbors, Outsiders. The description states, "The Gray House is an astounding tale of how what others understand as liabilities can be leveraged into strengths." I had high hopes. But I just couldn't get any connection. It felt disjointed and I didn't find myself drawn to any of it. I stopped about half way through and just couldn't go further.