Journalist and McSweeney’s Executive Director Amanda Uhle, “Destroy This House”

Journalist and McSweeney’s executive director, Amanda Uhle shares a heartbreaking and hilarious memoir chronicling the challenges of growing up in dysfunction. The Long family’s love was fierce, their lifestyle bizarre, and their deceptions countless. Amanda’s striving fashion designer mother and her charismatic wheeler-dealer father wove a complex life together that spanned ten different homes across five states. They swung between being filthy rich and dirt poor, devious and virtuous, lonely and loved, fake and real. With humor and tenderness, Uhle has crafted an utterly unique memoir, capturing the raucousness, pain, joy, and ultimately, the boundless love that exists between all parents and children.

Amanda Uhle will be in conversation with Heather McPherson - Professor of Creative Writing, Washington University.

Books available from The Novel Neighbor.

You may also like the following events from St. Louis County Library:

• This Saturday, 2nd August, 02:00 pm, Meet the Puppets from “Romeo & Zooliet” in Frontenac
• Next Monday, 4th August, 07:00 pm, Bestselling Novelist Karen White “That Last Carolina Summer” in Frontenac
• Next Tuesday, 5th August, 07:00 pm, National Book Award-winning Novelist Jason Mott “People Like Us” in Frontenac

Also check out other Arts events in Frontenac, Fashion Shows in Frontenac.