Rise: How a House Built a Family

✍ Scribed by Brookins, Cara

• Book ID: 108907314
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 299 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"One board at a time, we built a house. And in the end, we discovered a home."

After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible.

Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four children.

It would be the hardest thing she had ever done. With no experience nailing together anything bigger than a bookshelf, she and her kids poured concrete, framed the walls and laid bricks for their two story, five bedroom house. She had convinced herself that if they could build a house, they could rebuild their broken family.

This must-read memoir traces one family's rise from battered victims to stronger, better versions of themselves, all through one extraordinary...