Jessie Sholl

Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding (2010)

I thought this was a very well-done book. Is it a nuts & bolts look at the whys and hows of hoarding? No. A book with answers, a treatment guide, a self help manual for children of hoarders? No. It is, as advertised, a deeply personal memoir of the child of a troubled woman. A hoarder, mentally ...