Coming Clean: A Memoir, Library Edition

from arubabookwoman

This was the engaging memoir of a young woman who grew up as the only daughter of hoarders. What shines through in this book is how much her parents love her, and how much she loves them, despite the pain their mental illness caused her both during her childhood and as an adult, and despite the P...

from elmoelle

I've often thought that some members of my mother's side of the family might be hoarders. They collect things in large quantities and have items tucked into strange places that they never knew they had. I find that I have ended up with piles and piles of books that I will never have time to read ...

from CarrieWuj

Fascinating memoir of a woman who grew up in a hoarding household. Having pack-rat tendencies myself I was intrigued, horrified and vindicated about my own stacks and piles in comparison. This is full-blown cable TV style hoarding -- including rats, fleas, and whole rooms that couldn't be entered...

from mom2acat

This a very moving true story of a girl who grew up with parents who were extreme hoarders. She shares the heartbreaking details of growing up in a rat infested home, filled with stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers and radios and useless junk collected by her father, and boxes of unopene...

from akblanchard

Kimberly Rae Miller grew up in almost unimaginable squalor, complete with rats, fleas, and unusable kitchens and bathrooms. The author's parents couldn't help themselves; their homes were overrun with her hoarder father's "papers" and junk and her depressed mother's unnecessary, often unopened on...