Coming Clean: A Memoir - Couverture rigide

Miller, Kimberly Rae

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ISBN 10 : 0544025830 ISBN 13 : 9780544025837

Editeur : New Harvest, 1709

Synopsis

Kimberly Rae Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a beautifully tidy apartment in Brooklyn. You would never guess that behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house hid teetering stacks of aging newspaper, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room—the product of her father’s painful and unending struggle with hoarding.

In this dazzling memoir, Miller brings to life her experience growing up in a rat-infested home, hiding her father’s shameful secret from friends for years, and the emotional burden that ultimately led to her suicide attempt. In beautiful prose, Miller sheds light on her complicated yet loving relationship with her parents, which has thrived in spite of the odds.

Coming Clean is a story about recognizing where you come from and understanding the relationships that define you. It is also a powerful story of recovery and redemption.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“Reality shows typically stay with hoarders only long enough to portray them as objects of pity or ridicule, but Miller's story, Coming Clean, offers a uniquely nuanced look at her intelligent, loving, but broken father and the enduring effect his affliction has had on her and her long-suffering mother." —Entertainment Weekly "Harrowing. You root for [Kim], you root for [her parents], and at the end, you marvel at the capacity for human resilience." —People "In Kimberly Rae Miller's memoir, Coming Clean, the writer doesn't minimize the destruction the disorder causes families. But she uses her own experience to paint a much more compassionate and nuanced portrait of the illness than is usually shown on reality TV shows like 'Hoarders.'" —The Associated Press "Miller renders her harrowing account without self-pity, and her empathy for her parents, as well as her refusal to treat the hoarding as a spectacle, allow space for redemption—both theirs and her own." —Elle "Kimberly Rae Miller writes with insight about growing up the daughter of a hoarder in her family’s moldy, flea-infested home - and eventually overcoming her anger and shame." —Parade "Astonishingly honest and heartfelt... Kimberly Rae Miller’s new memoir comes clean on how the reality of compulsive hoarding is very different from what we see on TV." —The Daily Beast, Women in the World

Présentation de l'éditeur

Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. You would never guess that Kim grew up behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room—the product of her father’s painful and unending struggle with hoarding.
 
In this moving coming-of-age story, Kim brings to life her rat-infested home, her childhood consumed by concealing her father’s shameful secret from friends, and the emotional burden that ultimately led to an attempt to take her own life. And in beautiful prose, Miller sheds light on her complicated yet loving relationship with her parents that has thrived in spite of the odds.
 
Coming Clean is a story about recognizing where we come from and the relationships that define us—and about finding peace in the homes we make for ourselves.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Harvest
• Date d'édition: 1709
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0544025830
• ISBN 13: 9780544025837
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible