{"product_id":"the-house-that-held-everything-a-familys-hidden-hoarding-and-the-secrets-left-behind-9781538199275","title":"The House That Held Everything: A Family's Hidden Hoarding and the Secrets Left Behind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unexpected inheritance leads to a shocking house of hoarding and a year-long quest to understand the deep connection between humans and their objects.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe possessions of her departed relatives come alive in her hands, as author Eileen Stukane becomes a detective of the deceased in \u003ci\u003eThe House That Held Everything.\u003c\/i\u003e In this first-person memoir, the author inherits the childhood home of a deceased cousin, and then opens a door to rooms filled wall to wall, floor to ceiling, with piled up items from years of secret hoarding, as well as from the disciplined collecting, of clocks, glassware, Asian porcelain, toy trains and more. As she separates significant items from garbage, she peels apart and exposes the emotional underpinnings of hoarding, and makes sense of the difference between collecting and hoarding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEileen St\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eukane\u003c\/b\u003e, an award-winning journalist in New York City, enters the world of hoarding disorder in \u003ci\u003eThe House That Held Everything\u003c\/i\u003e. She has covered women's health and family stories as the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Worlds of Pregnancy\u003c\/i\u003e, co-author of four women's health books, among them \u003ci\u003eListen To Your Body, \u003c\/i\u003eand as a contributor to national publications. Here she focuses on the mysterious and deep connection between humans and their objects.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705337970962,"sku":"9781538199275","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e55ad41c-8b15-492b-aaa9-e70644ecec54.jpg?v=1762345816","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-house-that-held-everything-a-familys-hidden-hoarding-and-the-secrets-left-behind-9781538199275","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}