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Destroy This House: A Memoir

Destroy This House: A Memoir

Uhle, Amanda

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHumorSelf-Help

Publisher Price: $20.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 3, 2026

ISBN10: 1668083450
ISBN13: 9781668083451
Publisher: S&s/Summit Books
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
An ELLE Best Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

Incredible...riveting. --Dax Shepard, Armchair Expert podcast

For fans of The Glass Castle and The Liars' Club, a tender, heartbreaking, and hilarious memoir written with unwavering affection (ELLE) chronicling the challenges of growing up with a desperately scheming father, a mother plagued by an acute hoarding disorder, and parenting parents while seeking independence.

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 this iconic, only-in-America fable of desperate Midwestern dreamers (Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), 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.

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