Destroy This House - A Memoir

From the publisher of McSweeney’s, a “poignant” (Isaac Fitzgerald), heartbreaking, and hilarious memoir of growing up with a desperately scheming father and a mother held captive by an acute hoarding disorder; of parenting her parents while finding a path to independence.

About the author

Amanda Uhle writes about culture, politics, and civil rights for The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, The Boston Globe, and Newsweek. Uhle is coeditor of the I, Witness series of first-person stories by youth activists, former director of the 826michigan youth writing and tutoring program, and cofounder, with Dave Eggers, of the International Congress of Youth Voices. Their work with youth writing organizations worldwide is documented in Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire. Uhle is the publisher and executive director of McSweeney’s, an independent nonprofit publisher of distinctive books and magazines.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Uhle
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9781668083444
• ISBN: 978-1-6680-8344-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 515 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families, HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology: family and relationships, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs