Build Fast, Marry Faster, by Dawn Lybarger

My Nesting Instinct Gone Wild

Are you sailing through life, or simply trudging along? Accepting what is, or still curious about what might be?

In Build Fast, Marry Faster, Dawn Lybarger looks back on a life of bold reinventions, complicated relationships, and houses built in search of something sturdier than walls. After a high-pressure career, chronic fatigue, and years of trying to become the woman each new life seemed to require, she sets out to build a sleek modern prefab home on a remote Canadian island—a sanctuary, but also a declaration that she can stand on her own.

Witty, candid, and searching, this hybrid memoir of architecture, resilience, and reinvention is for anyone who has ever wondered whether the life they built is the life they still want to inhabit.