(56) Coming Clean: A memoir
Title: Coming Clean: A Memoir by Kimberly Rae Miller Publisher: New Harvest 272 pages Genre: Memoir Synopsis: 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. Review: I've watched Horders on tv, and been shocked by their living conditions but Kimberly's memoir puts you right in their moldy trash ridden house along with her. The shame and humiliation she felt at living like that. Surviving a fire that killed all her pets, but left her happy that they got to start over somewhere else that was clean was heartbreaking. At least nowdays its known to b...