As a child growing up in a small Louisiana town, Frances Boudreaux couldn't understand her mother's obsession with stuff. She stashed clothes, trash, and even worthless trinkets. It was only years later that Frances discovered the truth about her mother: she was an obsessive-compulsive hoarder. Brutally honest and emotionally-wrenching, "Where the Sun Don't Shine and the Shadows Don't Play" shares a daughter's struggle to comprehend her mother's fall from happy teenager to house-bound adult living in the midst of filth and chaos. Spanning her childhood during the 1950s through her adulthood...
As a child growing up in a small Louisiana town, Frances Boudreaux couldn't understand her mother's obsession with stuff. She stashed clothes, trash, ...