A novel about throwing things out — and letting people in.<\/p>\r\n
Annabelle has a secret so big she won\u2019t allow friends within five miles of her home. Her mom collects things. Their house is overflowing with stuff. It gives Annabelle\u2019s sister nightmares, her brother spends as much time as he can at friends\u2019 houses, and her dad buries himself in his work.<\/p>\r\n
When a stack of newspapers falls on Annabelle\u2019s sister, it sparks a catastrophic fight between their parents–one that might tear them all apart–and Annabelle starts to think that things at home finally need to change. Is it possible for her to clean up the family\u2019s mess? Or are they really, truly broken?<\/p>\r\n
Mary E. Lambert\u2019s moving and heart-breakingly funny debut novel about the things we hold dear–and the things we let go–will resonate with anyone whose life has ever felt just a little too messy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A novel about throwing things out — and letting people in. Annabelle has a secret so big she won\u2019t allow friends within five miles of her home. Her mom collects things. Their house is overflowing with stuff. It gives Annabelle\u2019s sister nightmares, her brother spends as much time as he can at friends\u2019 houses, and […]","protected":false},"author":[172],"featured_media":636,"parent":506,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"content_book_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[132,109,120,77],"rights_available":[122,123],"literary_agent":[142],"publication_year":[233],"class_list":["post-634","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-grade","tag-coming-of-age","tag-contemporary","tag-family","tag-humor","rights_available-dramatic","rights_available-translation","author-mary-e-lambert","literary_agent-linda-camacho","publication_year-233"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634\/revisions\/1922"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"rights_available","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rights_available?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"literary_agent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_agent?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"publication_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_year?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}