"A wonderful new book from one of my very favorite writers. It's like having a long, glorious, no-holds-barred conversation with your smartest, funniest friend about all the juicy topics: real estate, class envy, bad dates, family identity, and the discrepancies between the lives we aspire to and the lives we lead. I'm awed by Daum's honesty and talent."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, author of American Wife

 

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"Meghan Daum's writing never fails to entertain and enlighten. She is comedically self-deprecatory and yet always so smart and insightful about her life and what it's like to be in America in the twenty-first century. This latest book is further testimony to her incredible gifts—her lovely prose, her fantastic sense of humor, and her hard-earned wisdom."

-Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!

 

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"Moving in every sense of the word, Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House is a book for anyone who has ever searched for happiness in the floorboards. As a tour guide to the perils of real-estate obsession, Meghan Daum is unfailingly charismatic, tender and honest. If this book were a house, I'd rent a U-haul, fill it with praise and move in tomorrow."

-Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake

 

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"Daum takes the absorbing subject of shelter and runs with it, or rather, lives with it. Her personal odyssey is funny, sharp and charming.”

-Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap

 

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“Daum’s memoir is witty, stylishly written, sophisticated, and supremely entertaining, but it also strikes chords of deep feeling that are very moving and haunting.”

-Phillip Lopate

 

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“A darkly funny and ever-more-revealing journey into a certain relationship with shelter—that of relentless obsession.”

-Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint It Black

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