title: Coming Clean: A Memoir
author:  Kimberly Rae Miller 
description: <b>An Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2013:</b> Most children who grow up in dysfunctional families dont realize at first theyre any different from anybody elsebut Kimberly Rae Miller is more observant than most; from childhood, she had a growing sense that there was something wrong in her household. A brilliant guy who ended up driving a bus, Millers father was an extreme hoarder, and the familys normal-from-the-outside (at least for a while) Long Island home was a mess (or treasure trove, depending on your point of view) of useless (or fascinating) papers and junk (important stuff). In <i>Coming Clean</i>, Miller, an actor and writer, chronicles her weird childhood and adolescence, but whats really unusual about this buoyant, winning memoir is that for all that the author describes the familial dysfunction in heartbreaking, copious detailand for all that she sometimes lost patience with her parentsshe never stops showing that she loves them. As readers we come to love them, toopartly because, whatever else, they managed to raise such a smart and witty and generous daughter. <i>Sara Nelson</i>
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