num_pages: 272
description: A stunning memoir about a childhood spent growing up in a family of extreme hoarders and hiding squalor behind the veneer of a perfect family. Kim 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 she spent her childhood hiding behind the closed doors of her familys idyllic Long Island house navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspaper broken computers and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every roomthe product of her fathers painful and unending struggle with hoarding. In this coming-of-age story Kim brings to life her experience of growing up in a rat-infested home concealing her fathers shameful secret from friends for years and of 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 usand about finding peace in the homes we make for ourselves.
language: English
title: Coming Clean
publisher: New Harvest