Sugarhouse : Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home

English

ISBN: 0547634536

EAN: 9780547634531

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Literary/House & Home / Repair/Literary Criticism / American / General/Self-Help / Personal Growth / General/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Release Date: 10/05/2012

Synopsis: Youre married, youre getting older, and your parents are looking more and more like the grandparents they are pestering you to make them. Its getting embarrassing. Your pathetic renters mailboxthe one with three former tenants names crossed outis stuffed with your friends baby shower invitations. Just a few months ago, right after my grandmother died, five different people mentioned the word Ultrasound to me on the same day. It was both onomatopoetic and devastating. In the cruel, cruel summer of a recent year, this was the condition in which Matt Batt and his young wife, Jenae, found themselves. Transient residents of higher-education-inspired locations like Columbus, OH, Madison, WI, Boston, MA, and eventually St. Paul, MN, they were, quite unexpectedly, living, working and renting in Salt Lake City, UT. And when a vicious series of deaths in their respective, immediate families set their anxious sights on some semblance of stability, they landed upon a flamboyantly dilapidated house in the Sugarhouse section of Salt Lake. With a shaky young marriage and a full-blown life crisis on their hands, these perpetual grad-students/waiters/non-profiteers with no homesteading experience whatsoever, decided they would turn this yellow former crack house into a home. Dizzy with despair, doubt and the side effects of using the rough equivalent of napalm to detoxify their house, Matt and Jenae found themselves fighting for their marriage, alternately dodging and accepting the burdens and joys of becoming fully committed adults, while trying to figure out how the hell a rented power sander works.

Sugarhouse : Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.75 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 9.31 oz

Pages: 272