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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Memoirist Amanda Uhle with Mary Alice Stephens
DESCRIPTION:McSweeney's Executive Director Amanda Uhle presents a tender\, 
 heartbreaking\, and hilarious memoir chronicling the challenges of growing 
 up with a desperately scheming father\, a mother plagued by an acute 
 hoarding disorder\, and parenting parents while seeking 
 independence.\n\nThe Long family’s love was fierce\, their lifestyle 
 bizarre\, and their deceptions countless. Once her parents were gone\, 
 Amanda Uhle realized she was closer to them than anyone else\, yet she 
 found herself utterly confounded by the lives they had led.\n\nIn Destroy 
 This House\, Amanda sets out to document her parents’ unbelievable 
 exploits and her own hard-won escape into independence. With humor and 
 tenderness\, Uhle has crafted a heartfelt and utterly unique memoir\, 
 capturing the raucousness\, pain\, joy\, and ultimately\, the boundless 
 love that exists between all parents and children.\n\nAmanda Uhle is 
 Executive Director and Publisher of McSweeney's\, founded by Dave Eggers 
 and known for its award-winning quarterly literary journal\, humor website 
 and eclectic book publishing program\, along with magazines The Believer 
 and Illustoria. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post\, Politico 
 Magazine\, Newsweek\, ThinkProgress\, The Boston Globe\, and Oprah Daily. 
 Her memoir\, Destroy This House\, was an Elle magazine best book of 
 2025.\n\nAward-winning author Mary Alice Stephens shares her raw\, funny\, 
 and ultimately inspiring journey from alcohol-fueled chaos to clarity\, 
 connection\, and self-acceptance in her instant best-seller\, Uncorked: A 
 Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over. Uncorked was an Amazon #1 new 
 release in alcoholism recovery\, an Amazon best-seller in midlife 
 self-help\, and a 2026 PenCraft Best Book Award Winner in Inspirational 
 Nonfiction. Mary\, a former television writer-producer for HGTV\, Food 
 Network\, and other media outlets\, earned her Master of Fine Arts in 
 creative writing from Dominican University of California and lives in Marin 
 County\, California.\n\nBooks will be for sale at this program from the 
 Friends of the Mill Valley Library. \n\nPhoto by Melanie Maxwell.
LOCATION:Creekside Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Maggie Grabmeier":MAILTO:mgrabmeier@cityofmillvalley.gov
CATEGORIES:In Person, Author Talk
CONTACT;CN="Maggie Grabmeier":MAILTO:mgrabmeier@cityofmillvalley.gov
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URL:https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/16454756
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