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A heartwrenching look at a disease that has become coming up more and more through tv shows and the media - hoarding. The reader immediately meets Trish a hoarder who has CPS on her front door due to an accident in her home with her youngest son. Soon after we meet her sister Mary, who has the exact opposite problem an OCD cleanliness thing.
A heartwrenching look at a disease that has become coming up more and more through tv shows and the media - hoarding. The reader immediately meets Trish a hoarder who has CPS on her front door due to an accident in her home with her youngest son. Soon after we meet her sister Mary, who has the exact opposite problem an OCD cleanliness thing.
I really enjoyed this book for a couple of reasons. One, it did not follow a predictable Lifetime Movie story line of troubled characters and strained relationships, contrived plot lines that push the story in an unrealistic direction and then the corny relationship breakthroughs with a happy ending. Two, the main characters annoyed the heck out of me at times but I still cared enough about them to want to see them succeed (just like most of my relatives LOL). Not a perfect story but I was intrigued, engaged and entertained all the way through.
Good book, but a little frustrating. It's told in the point of view of both sisters alternating every other chapter. The main character trish seems snotty and lazy. That was the only thing that drove me crazy. Still a really good book. I had a hard time putting it down.
Interesting subject & characters. Hard to put down because I wanted to see what would happen next for Trish.
Keepsake by Kristina Riggle deals with hoarding through the perspectives of sisters Trish and Mary. The book is less about this family than about information on hoarding, its possible causes, its impact on families, and its treatment. The narrative becomes a vehicle through which to deliver that content. Once the message is done, so is the narrative. The mess of life is cleaned up too neatly, literally and figuratively, at the end of the book.
Read my complete review at: http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2015/11/keepsake.html
Read my complete review at: http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2015/11/keepsake.html
