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A Built-It-Myself Memoir
Blue Rider Press
May 2014
On Sale: April 22, 2014
304 pages
ISBN: 0399166173
EAN: 9780399166174
Kindle: B00DGZL078
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Dee Williams’s life changed in an instant, with a near-death
experience in the aisle of her local grocery store.
Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was
all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is
precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people
and things she truly loved. That included the beautiful
sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had
painstakingly restored—but, increasingly, it did not include
the mortgage payments, constant repairs, and general
time-suck of home ownership. A new sense of clarity began to
take hold: Just what was all this stuff for? Multiple extra
rooms, a kitchen stocked with rarely used appliances, were
things that couldn’t compare with the financial freedom and
the ultimate luxury—time—that would come with downsizing. Deciding to build an eighty-four-square-foot house—on her
own, from the ground up—was just the beginning of building a
new life. Williams can now list everything she owns on one
sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to
about eight dollars, and it takes her approximately ten
minutes to clean the entire house. It’s left her with more
time to spend with family and friends, and given her freedom
to head out for adventure at a moment’s notice, or watch the
clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny)
front porch. The lessons Williams learned from her “aha” moment
post-trauma apply to all of us, every day, regardless of
whether or not we decide to discard all our worldly
belongings. Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny
is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of
slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly
important things in life.
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