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House Rules by Rachel Sontag audiobook

House Rules: A Memoir

By Rachel Sontag
Read by Nicole Poole

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7.97 Hours • Unabridged
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    ISBN: 9781664491564

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Author Rachel Sontag recounts her dysfunctional childhood in this shocking memoir. On the surface, Rachel's physician father seemed perfect. He was well liked and equally respected in suburban Chicago. But home life was far different. An obsessive and manipulative man, he exercised complete control over everything, including the length of Rachel's hair and fingernails. Eventually, Rachel fought to break free and make some sense of her damaged life.

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Author Rachel Sontag recounts her dysfunctional childhood in this shocking memoir. On the surface, Rachel's physician father seemed perfect. He was well liked and equally respected in suburban Chicago. But home life was far different. An obsessive and manipulative man, he exercised complete control over everything, including the length of Rachel's hair and fingernails. Eventually, Rachel fought to break free and make some sense of her damaged life.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Fascinating.” —Rosie O’Donnell
“Sontag’s lean writing captures the feeling of family as prison. Each time an outside observer recognizes her father’s manipulative cruelty, the reader feels a little surge of hope.” —Los Angeles Times
“As Rachel Sontag makes clear in her searing memoir, House Rules, emotional abuse can be as devastating, as cruel, as the most severe physical and sexual maltreament…What is remarkable and inspiring is that Sontag emerged from the situation a stronger person.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Sontag’s is a brave account, not only of what it’s like to take the brunt of an abusive parent’s wrath, but of what it means to have the courage to leave.” —Publishers Weekly
“With riveting candor and mature insight, she explores the profound complexity of her family relationships and offers a powerful story of survival, strength, and hope.” —Booklist
“As riveting, passionate, and powerful a memoir as any I have read in recent years.” —Phillip Lopate, award-winning author
“Sontag lays out the story of her family in prose as tautly strung and delicate as a high-wire…House Rules is a remarkable book that will move readers as surely as it will instruct them in the art of survival.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Black & White

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Available Formats : CD
Runtime: 7.97
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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