Destroy this house : a memoir
Book |
First Summit Books hardcover edition. |
Summit Books,
New York :
2025.
- 5 of 6 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
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| Centennial | BIO UHLE 2025 | Non-Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Grimsby | 070.92 Uhl | Non-fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Niagara-on-the-Lake | 5135 UHLE | Adult New Non-Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Checked out |
| Port Colborne | B UHL | Non-Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Wainfleet | 070.92 UHL | Adult - Non-Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Welland Main | 070.92 Uhle | New - Non-fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
This poignant and humorous memoir details the complexities of navigating childhood with a hoarding mother and a scheming father, highlighting the bizarre lifestyle, constant deceptions and eventual journey toward personal independence amidst familial chaos. The Long family's love was fierce, their lifestyle bizarre, and their deceptions countless. Once her parents were gone, Amanda Uhle realized she was closer to them than anyone else, yet she found herself utterly confounded by the lives they had led. Amanda's striving fashion designer mother and her charismatic wheeler-dealer father wove a complex life together that spanned ten different homes across five states over forty perplexing years. Throughout her childhood, as her mother's hoarding disorder flourished and her father's schemes crumbled, contradictions abounded. They bartered for dental surgery and drove their massive Lincoln Town Car to the food bank. When financial ruin struck, they abandoned their repossessed mansion for humble parish housing, and Amanda's father became a preacher. They swung between being filthy rich and dirt poor, devious and virtuous, lonely and loved, fake and real. In Destroy This House, Amanda sets out to document her parents' unbelievable exploits and her own hard-won escape into independence. With humor and tenderness, Uhle has crafted a heartfelt and utterly unique memoir, capturing the raucousness, pain, joy, and ultimately, the boundless love that exists between all parents and children.
Details
- ISBN: 9781668083444
- Physical Description: 340 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Summit Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Summit Books, 2025.