Ebook: Rise: how a house built a family
Author: Brookins Cara
- Tags: Abused wives, Abused wives--United States, Divorced women, Divorced women--United States, House construction, House construction--United States, Owner-built houses, Single mothers, Single mothers--United States, Biographies, Biography, Case studies, Brookins Cara, Single mothers -- United States -- Biography, Abused wives -- United States -- Biography, Divorced women -- United States -- Biography, House construction -- United States -- Case studies, United States
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- City: United States
- Language: English
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"One board at a time, we built a house. And in the end, we discovered a home."
After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible.
Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four children.
It would be the hardest thing she had ever done. With no experience nailing together anything bigger than a bookshelf, she and her kids poured concrete, framed the walls and laid bricks for their two story, five bedroom house. She had convinced herself that if they could build a house, they could rebuild their broken family.
This must-read memoir traces one family's rise from battered victims to stronger, better versions of themselves, all through one extraordinary...