![]() ![]() Throughout the book, Miller tries to reconcile her shame over her parents with disgust at herself for being ashamed of two flawed but loving people. ![]() Beginning with her early childhood on Long Island, the story continues through the squalid conditions of her teen years, an attempted suicide in college, and her outwardly successful but nightmarishly beset inner life as a young actress. “I believed,” Miller writes “that my parents loved me into living, that the three of us were meant to be a family, and that I was going to be a miracle, if I could only figure out how.”Ĭoming Clean is the story of Miller’s struggle to perform that miracle. Miller’s father, wounded by his own parents’ alcoholism, and her mother, who suffers from scoliosis, open their common bond of pain just enough to admit Kimberly Rae when she’s born three months prematurely. Hoarding, the first, has only recently entered the popular lexicon while the second, familial love, spans the ages. At the heart of Coming Clean, a memoir by Kimberly Rae Miller, lie two equally mysterious phenomena, one as timely as the other is timeless. ![]()
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