What is the importance of Cherry's house in the novel, Godshot?

Cherry’s house is where Lacey lives for the majority of the novel, after Louise leaves. Before that, Cherry lived alone in the farmhouse since the suicide of her husband, Jackie. Lacey sleeps on a crib’s mattress on the floor of Cherry’s craft room, and her sleeping conditions reveal her lack of true acceptance in the house and Cherry’s resistance to Lacey living with her. Stringy moves in with Lacey and Cherry after Cherry marries them in the eyes of God, and Cherry traps him in the craft room after he finds articles about Vern as a cult leader in New Mexico. There is shed behind the house which used to belong to Jackie, and this is where Lyle tells Lacey he wants them to do Bible Study and rapes her.