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Rise : how a house built a family /

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ISBN 9781250095664
1250095662
Author Brookins, Cara author.
Title Rise : how a house built a family /
Edition First edition.
Publication New York:
St. Martin's Press,
2017.
Physical description viii, 310 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Rise A House -- 2.Fall Bad Habits -- 3.Rise Sticks and Stones -- 4.Fall What I Learned in First Grade -- 5.Rise Truth Tellers -- 6.Fall Coffee with Cream -- 7.Rise Plan B Is for Sissies -- 8.Fall Black, White, and Gray -- 9.Rise Shop Not Shopping -- 10.Fall Karma Points -- 11.Rise Sounds Easy -- 12.Fall The Art of War -- 13.Rise A Little to the Left -- 14.Fall Loyalty Won't Save You -- 15.Rise One Cookie at a Time -- 16.Fall Firefighters Have Hoses -- 17.Rise What Is Down Must Go Up -- 18.Fall Hear the Words I Mean -- 19.Rise I Am My Plumber -- 20.Fall Down by the River -- 21.Rise Glue Me Back Together -- 22.Fall Aiming True -- 23.Rise Scramble to the Finish -- 24.Fall and Rise You Built Your Own Damn House.
Summary If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable. After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible. Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four children. It would be the hardest thing she had ever done. With no experience nailing together anything bigger than a bookshelf, she and her kids poured concrete, framed the walls and laid bricks for their two story, five bedroom house. She had convinced herself that if they could build a house, they could rebuild their broken family. This must-read memoir traces one family's rise from battered victims to stronger, better versions of themselves, all through one extraordinary do-it-yourself project.
Subject Brookins, Cara
Authors, American21st century--Biography
Women authors, American. --Biography.
Divorced mothers. --Arkansas. --Little Rock. --Biography.
House construction. --Arkansas. --Little Rock.
Shelf Location B 818.603/BRO
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