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house rules a memoir
p a memoir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his suffocating grasp house rules explores the complexities of their compelling and destructive relationship as rachel fights to escape and later to make sense of what remains of her family .
traces the authors journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father a respected suburban doctor with an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute details of their lives .