Cover: How do you start fresh when you live with the dead? The Cover of A House Unsettled by Trynne Delaney is a detail from Vanitas Still Life, a seventeenth century painting by Jan van Kessel the Elder, which shows a human skull surrounded by bouquets of flowers, an hour glass, a necklace, and some moths and other insects. Nestled into the flowers are the words of the title.