Matthew Batt
Autor(a) de Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home
Obras de Matthew Batt
Associated Works
Mule Tales: An anthology benefiting The Runaway Mule, Nacogdoches Texas (2012) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
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- male
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 70
- Popularidade
- #248,179
- Avaliação
- 2.8
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 4
Matthew Batt and his wife Jenae are in Salt Lake City and looking to buy a home. Unfortunately, they can’t afford what they really want, so they end up with a (huge!) fixer-upper. It is only after they are renovating they find out that the house used to be a crackhouse. Oh, and they aren’t particularly handy people, but do the bulk of the work themselves.
Interspersed with their house dilemmas, Matt’s grandmother passes away, so Matt and his mom have to help out Matt’s grandfather, a playboy who really just wants to be with Tonya, the home care nurse who took care of his wife when she was alive.
It maybe doesn’t sound like the more interesting part of the story, but I liked the renovating of the house portions of the story better. I’m actually not quite sure how the two stories fit together, except I suppose that the things that happened with Matt’s family really were happening at the time. There were plenty of humourous bits, maybe more humourous because super-non-handy me could relate. I’m sure they managed to do a heck of a lot more than I ever could have, even with help from friends! Overall, I liked it.… (mais)