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Author Sholl, Jessie, author

Title Dirty secret : a daughter comes clean about her mother's compulsive hoarding / Jessie Sholl

Edition First Gallery Books trade paperback edition

Publisher New York : Gallery Books, 2011
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Wallace Library - Main Collection (2nd Floor)  RC569.5.H63 S4 2011    AVAILABLE
ISSN/ISBN 9781439192528 (paperback)
1439192529 (paperback)
9781439192535 (ebk.)
1439192537 (ebk.)
Descript 318 pages ; 21 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Notes Includes a Gallery readers group guide
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318)
"When her divorced mother was diagnosed with cancer, New York City writer Jessie Sholl returned to her hometown of Minneapolis to help her mother prepare for her upcoming surgery and get her affairs in order. While a daunting task for any adult dealing with an aging parent, it's compounded for Sholl by one lifelong, complex, and confounding truth: her mother is a compulsive hoarder. Dirty Secret is a daughter's powerful memoir of confronting her mother's disorder, of searching for the normalcy that was never hers as a child, and, finally, cleaning out the clutter of her mother's home in the hopes of salvaging the true heart of their relationship--before it's too late"--Page 4 of cover
Subject Sholl, Jessie
Sholl, Jessie -- Family
Compulsive hoarding -- United States -- Case studies
Hoarders -- Case studies -- Family relationships -- United States
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Case studies
Mothers -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Biography
Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Biography