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How does a psychologist fail to recognize that her intelligent, sensitive, and book-loving mother has created ""the worst hoarder house ever seen?"" After making the horrifying discovery that her mother had no water in her house for at least two years, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann begins the otherworldly excavation of a childhood home she hasn't been inside for three decades. Moving back and forth in time, from this surreal nightmare of an archaeological dig to recollecting her past and long buried family secrets, Kossmann seeks to untangle a web of complicated familial relationships. In her lyrical and unflinching quest, she comes to understand what's been lost, what's been found, and what's been kept in both her own and her mother's life.

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Deborah Derrickson Kossmann's essays, feature articles, and poetry have been published in the New York Times, Nashville Review, Psychotherapy Networker, and Solstice magazine to name a few. She was the winner of the Short Memoir Competition at the 2007 Philadelphia First Person Arts Festival and was awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship. When she's not working as a clinical psychologist in private practice outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she and her husband are devoted servants to Sofia Carmela, a cat with a whole lot of ""tortitude."" Deborah Derrickson Kossmann's essays, feature articles, and poetry have been published in the New York Times, Nashville Review, Psychotherapy Networker, and Solstice magazine to name a few. She was the winner of the Short Memoir Competition at the 2007 Philadelphia First Person Arts Festival and was awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship. When she's not working as a clinical psychologist in private practice outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she and her husband are devoted servants to Sofia Carmela, a cat with a whole lot of ""tortitude.""

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