Jessie Sholl discusses Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About her Mother’s Compulsive Hoarding. When her mother was diagnosed with cancer, New York City writer Jessie Sholl returned to her hometown of Minneapolis to help her prepare for her upcoming surgery. While a daunting task for any adult dealing with an aging parent, it’s compounded for Sholl by one lifelong, complex, and confounding truth: her mother is a compulsive hoarder.
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