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Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House Into Our Home Sweet Home

Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House Into Our Home Sweet Home - Paperback

by Matthew Batt
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Availability:In StockContributor:Matthew BattPublish date:2012-06-01Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780547634531ISBN-10:547634536UPC:9780547634531Book Category:Political Science, House & Home, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Political Process, Do-It-Yourself, Literary FiguresSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC4PA70440

An improbably funny account of how the purchase and restoration of a disaster of a fixer-upper saves a young marriage

When a season of ludicrous loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits. They set their sights instead on the purchase of a dilapidated house in the Sugarhouse section of Salt Lake City. With no homesteading experience and a full-blown quarter-life crisis on their hands, these perpetual grad students/waiters/nonprofiteers decide to seek salvation through renovation, and do all they can to turn a former crack house into a home. Dizzy with despair, doubt, and the side effects of using the rough equivalent of napalm to detoxify their house, they enter into full-fledged adulthood with power tools in hand.

Heartfelt and joyous, Sugarhouse is the story of how one couple conquers adversity and creates an addition to their family, as well as their home.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780547634531ISBN-10:547634536UPC:9780547634531Book Category:Political Science, House & Home, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Political Process, Do-It-Yourself, Literary FiguresSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC4PA70440
Batt, Matthew: -

Matt Batt's work has appeared in Tin House and on The Huffington Post and elsewhere. The Missouri Review called him a "heavy hitter" of nonfiction, and he's been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize and is the recipient of an individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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