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A compelling, sometimes horrifying work that is impossible to place down, House Guidelines will stand beside Running With Scissors and The Wine glass Castle as a memoir that cracks open up the shell of a desperately dysfunctional family with impressive grace and humour.
Rachel Sontag was raised the daughter of a well-liked doctor in an upper middle income suburb of Chicago. The view from outdoors couldn’t have been more perfect. But within the surfaces of the house, Rachel’s life was controlled and indeed terrorized by her dad’s serious despair. In prose that is both precise and wealthy, Rachel’s childhood experience unfolds in a chronological recounting that presents how her dad became more and more disturbed as Rachel was raised.
A visceral and wrenching exploration of the impact of a broken psyche on those nearest to him, House Guidelines could keep you reading even when you most wish you may look away.
In the center of the night, Dad sent Mother to wake me. In my pajamas, I sat across from them in the living room.
I was sure Grandma experienced died and I remember deciding to stay strong when Dad explained.
“What performed you tell her?” he asked. His elbows rested in his lap.
“What do you indicate?”
“You spent a good half hour alone in that hospital room. What performed you discuss?”
“I don’t know, Dad”
“What do you indicate, you don’t know? You know. You know just what you talked to her about.”
“You talked about me, Rachel.”
“No. I didn’t.”
“To my very own mother?”
. . . .
I pondered how he’d been with Mother, how she’d missed the symptoms. He couldn’t have just transformed crazy all of a sudden. I pondered if his own dad had attacked him with anger. But mainly, I needed to know what he found in me that induced him to split up inside. Was it in my own being created or in my own growing up?
--from House Guidelines
From the Hardcover release.
