Where the Sun Don't Shine and the Shadows Don't Play: Growing

Where the Sun Don't Shine and the Shadows Don't Play: Growing Up with an Obsessive-Compulsive Hoarder

"As a child growing up in a small Louisiana town, Frances Boudreaux couldnâ€™t understand her motherâ€™s obsession with stuff. She stashed clothes, trash, and even worthless trinkets. It was only years later that Frances discovered the truth about her mother: she was an obsessive-compulsive hoarder.

Brutally honest and emotionally-wrenching, Where the Sun Donâ€™t Shine and the Shadows Donâ€™t Play shares a daughterâ€™s struggle to comprehend her motherâ€™s fall from happy teenager to house-bound adult living in the midst of filth and chaos. Spanning her childhood during the 1950s through her adulthood years, Frances traces the rise of her motherâ€™s obsessive compulsive disorder and speaks candidly about the abuse she suffered at her motherâ€™s hands.

A story rich in emotional complexity, this gripping memoir throws back the curtain on one familyâ€™s dark secret, and exposes the truth in all its facets. But even more, it reveals Francesâ€™s determination to find healing and peace despite the scars of the past.

â€œMs. Boudreaux allows the reader to experience the full gamut of intense, complex, and contradictory emotions of love, hate, fear, tenderness, caring, revulsion, anger, affection, hope, and despair that she experienced. This is a brilliant and moving book, to be read and never forgotten.â€
â€”Bruce Mansbridge, PhD"

Country	USA
Author	Frances Boudreaux
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781462034482
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	iUniverse
Manufacturer	iUniverse
NumberOfPages	252
PublicationDate	2011-07-15
Publisher	iUniverse
ReleaseDate	2011-07-15
Studio	iUniverse

Where the Sun Don't Shine and the Shadows Don't Play: Growing Up with an Obsessive-Compulsive Hoarder

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