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If you were inspired by wild and eat, pray, love, youll love. But years of uncertainty and fear had taken a toll on not just herself, but her four children. If rise were a novel, the plotwoman escapes domestic violence to build her own house, assisted only by her children and youtube videoswould seem impossibly farfetched. In this honest, tough memoir, brookins documents how building a home for herself and her four children created a pathway out of domestic abuse and into a new life. The author uses flashbacks to reveal why they needed to do it and the inspiration for such a huge undertaking. If you were inspired by wild and eat, pray, love, youll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to. How a house built a family by cara brookins available from rakuten kobo. Rise how a house built a family tufts archives and given.

In this honest, tough memoir, brookins documents how building a home for herself and her four children created a pathway out of domestic. Cara brookinss new book, rise, is a memoir of how she and her four children literally built a new home for themselves. But cara brookins actually lived this story, and reading her account of it slowly filled me to the brim with admiration, hope, and belief that a determined human can do practically anything. How a house built a family cara brookins official site. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Trapped in an abusive marriage without enough money to buy the sort of house her family needed, cara brookins and her four kids took matters into their own hands. By building from scratch a new house and a new life for her children and herself, with only the instructions from you tube videos, the author physically selfbuilt her own house from the foundations up, with the assistance of her four children. Cara brookins is the author of a number of childrens books.

Cara brookins is a computer analyst and social media marketing expert based in little rock. Martins press, cara brookins tells the incredible tale of how she built a house from the ground upliterallyin an. Mom builds family house using youtube tutorials cnn. How a house built a family by cara brookins 2017, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. The single mom of four hope, drew, jada and roman, ages 17 to 2 at the time had recently left a marriage where she was a victim of domestic violence, and brookins felt like she and her kids were broken.

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